70th Anniversary of the LG Groves Memorial Awards

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The LG Groves Awards were set up in September 1946 in memory of Sergeant Louis Grimble Groves who died on 10 September 1945.

Before the modern technology or satellites that we use today, weather data needed to be collected in person. This often involved flying into extremely treacherous conditions as this was the only way of collecting accurate data. It was on a meteorological sortie like this that Sergeant Groves and eight other men lost their lives.

https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2016/09/21/70th-anniversary-of-the-lg-groves-memorial-awards/