Shoreham Airshow Tragedy: Sussex Remembers Ten Years On

Peter Trimming from Croydon, England, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

This Friday (tomorrow) marks ten years since the Shoreham Airshow disaster, when 11 men lost their lives after a vintage jet crashed onto the A27 on August 22, 2015.

Those who died were: Maurice Abrahams, 76; Tony Brightwell, 53; Matthew Grimstone, Jacob Schilt and Daniele Polito, all 23; Matt Jones, 24; Graham Mallinson, 72; Mark Reeves, 53; Dylan Archer, 42; Richard Smith, 26; and Mark Trussler, 54.

A short service will be held at St Nicolas Church in Shoreham on Friday, with candles lit in memory of the victims.

At 1pm, a community gathering will take place on the Shoreham Toll Bridge, where a two-minute silence will be observed at 1.22pm – the exact time of the crash. Families, friends, emergency service workers and members of the public are invited to attend and lay flowers, cards or tributes at the memorial arches installed in 2015.

Earlier this month, a charity football match was held in Lancing to honour two of the victims, Jacob Schilt and Matthew Grimstone, who had been travelling to play for Worthing United that day.

The annual memorial game raised more than £3,000 this year through donations, raffles and community support.