We will continue to mark new losses with "New" or "Updated" marked in red next to the description. We have thousands of losses to be added to the website but it does take time also, wherever possible, we check our sources to make sure that the information is correct. We would like to thank people who contact us with any additions or alterations.

4th March 2010: Aircrew Remembrance Society now reproducing the Daily Telegraph Obituaries column with kind permission. We will shortly be adding a further obituaries column for Aircrew who did not make it into the newspapers but who also played a large part during WW2.

14th February 2010: We would like to place an appeal for any surviving relatives of the crew from Stirling EE873 lost on 13/14th July 1943. Please see the article "HERE". The owner of the land a Mr. Sylvester Colson has built a superb memorial to the crew and is seeking relatives to contact him (Via us) in order to arrange a visit.

5th February 2010: Our download pages are currently offline as we are revamping the offers that are available to visitors. We are also planning to offer ceramic plaques for relatives to place in a suitable position at a crash site - these will be provided at cost price - plus a donation to the Society - sample of which can be viewed "HERE". Or a glossy aluminium sheet as shown further down on this page 23rd July. (Cost price will be around £10.00)

1st February 2010: We would like to thank the people who have offered their assistance with our work. We now have 14 "volunteers" working alongside us - some have already contributed great article and very well researched using some of the tools that we provide - some have even gone further and visited the National Archives to gain more information. But all offer dedication and all for no rewards apart from the help they are providing relatives in their quest for information.

14th January 2010: We have been inundated with requests for further information from relatives who would like further information on what happened to their loved ones. When we researched this it seems that many other websites who offer their services choose easy solutions and many emails to them are simply not answered. We seem to be building on the fact that we reply to every single email received - even the one's that we are unable to assist with from our extensive archives. For those we try and direct them to a possible source.

22nd December 2009: Pleased to be able to announce that we now have 5 people (From all parts of the world) who have contacted us regarding helping with our research. Not a great time of the year to start this off as everyone is so very busy, but we hope to have their first articles up on the site as soon as we receive them.

12/13th December 2009: Aircrew Remembrance Society meet in Norfolk, England to discuss the way forward for 2010 - details to follow.

10th December 2009: Following our appeal for people to assist us with our research we have since been contacted by several people who have offered their services. We plan to send each of them a set of guidelines and a loss that they can assist us with. We will evaluate the work that they return and continue from that. It is imperative that we have accuracy which is why we have chosen to use this method of selection.

8th December 2009: We are proud to announce that we have been contacted by 51 Squadron researchers who would like to use their information to expand our site.

3rd December 2009: We are proud to announce that we have been contacted by 408 Squadron researchers who would like to use their information to expand our site.

12th November 2009: New section added - early stages yet - POST WAR LOSSES will be added to each loss section - first has been added to R.A.F. today.

11th November 2009: Many Canadian Authorities are assisting us to place renamed geographical features on Google maps. We are proud to be involved in this work but - we need your help! Can you spare some time to collate infomation for us? The Canadians honour their WW2 Aircrew with this amazing idea - we need to tell people about it. Click on the logo shown below to show you what we are working on - a couple of thousand to go yet!

11th November 2009: We have teamed up with Amazon to offer some reference books that we use to cross check various information sent to us. Listed "HERE".

14th October 2009: We are still concentrating on producing our sales pages — testing is in progress to ensure files can be downloaded OK and it is looking very good. Most (If not all!) of these downloads have never been seen before and are a researchers dream. We also plan to release some photographs — again never published previously. We are working with a photographic studio to have the many negatives we have in our archive converted over to digitalised images. These can be worked on if required by our "Techie" services team at an extra charge.

9th October 2009: In order to assist us to maintain our website and avoid the need for advertising we are working on an archive download page. Here, several files of various sizes will be available as a download for a small fee.

5th October 2009: We have added a Poem section on the website and we will shortly adding further additions to this.

1st October 2009: Website new navigation bar published — created to make the site more navigable.

25th September 2009: C.W.G.C. (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) have just listed us on their website stating; "The Commonwealth War Graves Commission works in close association with many other organisations to achieve its task of the commemorating those who died in the two world wars. In addition, there are many organisations that have a presence on the world wide web which may be of interest."

23rd September 2009: The London Free Press, Canada recently publish article on the death of a former aircrew member using Aircrew Remembrance photographs and information. "See here"

6th September 2009: We are pleased to announce that Techie Services from Norwich, England have offered their superb photographic enhancement facilities to A. R. Society. This means that for a small fee relatives are able to send us damaged photographs for repair and already we have received many requests to use this service with great reviews.

5th September 2009: The Kracker archive is continuing to attract massive attention from many of the specialist forums, we have also been contacted by other researchers to make their research available online with us. We are of course grateful for this but we have to be sure that information we publish via our web site is as reliable as possible, so please be patient.

1st September 2009: A.R. Society contacted again by Laurent Taveau from France regarding the Polish fighter pilot, Chudek - with no known grave. A probable location has been established and a recovery is planned for the recovery of the body later this year. Following this a proper burial will be arranged. Parts from the aircraft and the watch from the pilot have been recovered. More to follow.

1st September 2009: A day of commemorations is taking place in Poland to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.
The first ceremony took place at dawn on Westerplatte peninsula near Gdansk, where a German battleship fired the first shots on a Polish fort in 1939.

23rd August 2009: New section added - Renaming of lakes in Alberta, Canada added. "see here"

22nd August 2009: We have now changed our "contact" page in order that readers are now able to send us photographs/documents/information by email direct. All we ask is that any information sent is scanned at least 300 dpi — if you have difficulty doing this please contact us for further advice.

21st August 2009: Royal British Legion contact Society in order to have a special page made for a U.S.A.A.F. crew lost over England as a remembrance page — details follow.

20th August 2009: Relative of former German Luftwaffe pilot contacts the Society in order for further information to be added to an article. "see here"
We hope to have further details added to this article very soon.

15th August 2009: 18,000 Luftwaffe records have now been entered on the website — a remarkable achievement and one that will assist us to make our Society the leader in the field. (This superb data base has taken 14 years to compile) We would like to express our gratitude to Tom Kracker for the information and also to Techie Services, Norwich, England for the web conversion work. This work will be continually updated as within 2 days of this being on our website we have had no less than 22 new pieces of information provided by our readers! We must insist that these files are not copied and the files are now subject to a ©.

12th August 2009: Alec Chudek family contact A.R.S. we are hoping to be able to re-unite the English family with the Polish family very shortly. Details follow.

10th August 2009: German Police contact A.R.S to assist in identification of Lancaster aircraft and remains of crew.

7th August 2009: Renowned cartoonist, Graham Ward has recently donated 2 cartoon created especially for the Aircrew Remembrance Society to be used to generate some funds to assist in the running of the website. As soon as we have decided how to promote these details will follow. Click onto the image for a larger version:

30th July 2009: A.R. Society linked up with a researcher making a complete record of 408 Squadron losses during WW2 - being prepared. Details to follow.

29th July 2009: The website now finished being converted in order to make all the pages to be translated into over 23 languages, all text now searchable and expandable for people with sight difficulties.

28th July 2009: A.R.Society will shortly be contacting Norwich City Council to establish why the Norwich City War Memorial gardens are still in a state of neglect and is in fact cordoned off to visitors! Despite planning permission being gained and finance made available!

23rd July 2009: We recently supplied small memorial plaques for a relative to place at the crash site in France of a Halifax in 1944. Now added see here.

22nd July 2009: Relatives found and contacted in Germany regarding lost Luftwaffe crew in England - further details and a full article to follow.

10th July 2009: Aircrew Remembrance Society are pleased to now be working with a specialist researcher in Russia - further information will now be made available to us.

30th June 2009: Alexander Chudek memorial unveiled in Normandy this week. Massive media coverage of the event. Further pictures being prepared for the website.
Pictures kindly supplied direct to us by Laurent Taveau from France who has been one of the main organisers of this splendid memorial plaque.

8th May 2009: This week we have managed to be have an appeal granted by a newspaper local to the last known address of W/O. Aleksander Chudek as French researchers recently contacted us that they had found the grave which they are sure belongs to this fighter pilot.

1st June 2009: Relatives of Fl/Sgt. Bernard Buxton contact A.R.S. for memorial plaque. Further information follows.