Pinewood Studios were honoured to host a remembrance service and tribute of silence today. Representatives attended from the Royal British Legion of Iver, the RAF, Imperial War Museum, Iver Parish Council, Buckinghamshire Council and the AFPU to pay respects to our armed forces community past and present.
The service, led by Father Andrew Montgomerie of the Iver Parish Church, involved a number of poignant readings and a two minute silence bookended by the Last Post and Reveille.
In early 1946 a simple dinner marked the end of AFPU and RAF presence at Pinewood Studios in wartime and on 21st April 1956, the plaque commemorating both Services was dedicated to the members of both Units who lost their lives during the Second World War.
The names on the plaque remember the photographers and cameramen, drivers and despatch riders, flying crews and airmen who lost their lives producing imagery in all theatres of Commonwealth operations which is so highly valued today.
Readings were by Kathryn Maidment, Pinewood’s Senior Community and Education Outreach Manager, Andrew M Smith DL, Pinewood’s Corporate Affairs Director and representing Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, Air Cdre Edward Sansome and Paul Clark, one of three surviving members of the AFPU who served from Pinewood during World War II.

