Slovak Ambassador Róbert Ondrjcsák (L) & Czech Ambassador Libor Sečka at the newly installed & dedicated headstone of Edita Sedláková & Zdeňek Sedlák. Standard bearers in the background.
Sunday 9th May 2021 at the National Czechoslovia Monument Brookwood. The Czech & Slovak Ambassadors to the UK and their Defence Attaches honour Czechoslovaks who fought with the Allies during WW2 and lay wreaths at the newly installed headstone amended to include Edith Sedláková with her husband Zdeňek Sedlák. Both were casualties of the Liberator plane crash and although at the time Edith was a serving WAAF she was buried in a civilian plot & not the military cemetery. She was a stowaway on the plane joining her new husband on a repatriation flight to Prague. Weeks later this mistake was recognised, however by then Edita's burial had taken place. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has created and installed the amended headstone. Edita arrived in the UK as a child on the Winton Kindertransport. Edita's nephews attended the ceremony organised by the Memorial Association of Free Czechoslovak Veterans
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Location: National Czechoslovakia War Memorial, Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey, England, UK
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