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VIDEO: Remembering Thatcham's Fallen Officer





Watch the NewburyToday documentary about Thatcham's only wartime bombing victim.

Lieutenant Colonel Vernon Watkins Urquhart was the only human fatality of the Nazis' blitz of Thatcham during the summer of 1940.

Last Sunday (October 23), the town came together to unveil a Blue Plaque in his memory.

Watch the documentary here:

If you have any information or a family connection to Colonel Urquhart or the former Thatcham Army Ordnance Depot you would like to share, please email Mirek Gosney on: mirek.gosney@newburynews.co.uk.



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