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VE Day 75th Anniversary

Among the 103 Commonwealth War Graves in Radnor Street Cemetery is that of Kenneth W. Scott Browne who died on April 4, 1944 aged 23. Scott-Browne was a member of the King's Own Scottish Borderers 7th Battalion. In November 1943 the 7th Battalion was converted into an Airborne Battalion and began training for the planned Normandy landings. During an exercise code named DREME a Stirling towing a Horsa glider carrying No 3 Platoon hit a tree and crashed. Scott-Browne was one of 34 military personnel killed that day in April 1944. His death was registered in Droxford, Hampshire and his body returned to his home at 85 Medgbury Road, Swindon for burial in Radnor Street Cemetery. As we prepare to commemorate the end of the Second World War in these strange, restrictive Covid-19 conditions, it is perhaps time to remember those who didn't come home 75 years ago. VE Day was a time for rejoicing but not for everyone. While the war in Europe had ended the one in Japan would continue...