WAR veterans paid a visit to Syon Park on Sunday to promote a range of greeting cards to help raise money for a WWII memorial.
Heroes who served in Bomber Command visited Syon Park Garden Centre as part of their aim to raise £3million for a memorial to be erected in London in memory of Bomber Command crews.
Martin Andrews, manager of the Brentford garden centre said: "Lots of people turned out to meet the war veterans and help raise money for this very worthy cause."
The cards and prints which show photographs taken between 1939 and 1945 of the men, the land army girls working the land and scenes of the Blitz and famous aircraft, are now on sale at the garden centre.
This year is the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain; one of the biggest air raids in history, and to celebrate this some of the pilots from Fighter Command also made an appearance at the centre. So far £1.6million has been raised through the card and print sales, but the Bomber Command Association still needs an extra £1.4 million to be able to build the memorial.
The Bomber Command Memorial will commemorate 55,573 bomber airmen who were killed during WWII. All the men who flew with the command unit were volunteers and their average age was just 22.
Out of the 180,000 original volunteers who became part of the command in 1940, there are less than 3,000 alive today, and it was some of these brave men, who are now aged between 86 and 92-years-old who made an appearance at the Garden Centre on Sunday.
