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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,
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