The History of the twinning

During World War 2, 101 Squadron RAF was based at Ludford Magna airfield. In the course of an air raid on Mailly-Le Camp a Lancaster bomber from the squadron crashed in the neighborhood of Voue. The members of the crew were buried in the churchyard there and their names were added to the village war memorial Their graves have been tended ever since by the people of Voue and members of the 101 Association paid regular visits to Voue.

In 1987, the mayor of Voue approached the parish council of Ludford with the suggestion that the two communities should be twinned. The parish council called a public meeting to consider this request and from that meeting the Ludford -Voue twinning committee was formed. It was not an official committee of the parish council but was elected at the request of the parish council to take responsibility for all matters concerned with the twinning of the two villages, acting on the requests of the council and reporting its actions to the council

On Sunday the 4 September 1988, a party of people from Voue led by the mayor M Louis Clement, came to Ludford as the guests of the 101 Squadron Association. Members of the Committee met the visitors and welcomed them on their first visit to Ludford. The Committee held a meeting on 8 November to which those who had expressed an interest in twinning were invited. At the meeting it was decided to proceed with the formal twinning of the two communities. Formal twinning took place in France in 1992, ratified in Ludford in 1993.
On March 21 1995 the Ludford parish council passed a resolution dissolving the twinning committee. The Ludford Voue twinning Association was formed at a public meeting on Friday 24 March 1995,