A poignant backdrop

The National Memorial to the Few found itself centre stage when a high-end clothing company used it as the backdrop for a short film focused on the life of an RAF pilot.

Stanley Biggs Clothiers is a small British heritage clothing brand that draws heavily on RAF and wartime history in both its design and storytelling, and used the Memorial to add the poignancy it was looking for in its latest promotional film.

With the working title of “The Jumper”, the film follows the life of a pilot through a single garment that accompanies him from wartime service into old age. The final scenes showed the elderly gentlemen remembering his fallen colleagues in a quiet act of remembrance at the Memorial.

Stanley Biggs Clothiers made a generous contribution to the charity's fund for the use of the Memorial.