FORMER RAF man Stuart Denoon will ride his Honda motorcycle more than a thousand miles across western Europe to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the famous Dam Busters raid.
Stuart, 54, of Wybers Wood, and his stepson David Denoon, 30, will join a horde of other bikers on the three-day adventure in aid of Help For Heroes and Motorcycle Outreach.
The pair will set off tomorrow from RAF Scampton, from where the Dam Busters raid was launched, and head for Folkestone, where they will board the Eurotunnel train to Calais.
From there they will ride to Germany, visiting key battle sites and memorials from both world wars en-route.
Stuart has been given four commemorative wooden crosses by the Royal Anglian and Royal Lincolnshire Regimental Association which he will lay down at the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium, at two memorials to the Grimsby Chums in the Somme in France, and in the shadow of the Mohne Dam, which was attacked by British aircraft during the Second World War.
A special wreath laying ceremony will take place on the water at 19 minutes past midnight on Friday – the exact time 70 years ago that the dam was breached – to remember the 53 British airmen and more than 1,500 Germans who died in the attack.
Stuart, who spent 14 years in the RAF as an aircraft technician, said: "I have not done too much riding on the continent so that will be quite a good experience, but the thing I am looking forward to the most is the ceremony at the dam.
"It's a charity event and Help For Heroes and Motorcycle Outreach are both very worthy causes."
If you would like to sponsor Stuart and David you can e-mail stucarol@hotmail.co.uk