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About 99% of the funds raised  (about three million Czech crowns) was donated by the British community in Czechia and Slovakia. Donations from Czech citizens, businesses and individuals were also received. The origins of the monument are credited to Mr. Euan Edworthy, who has lived in the Czech Republic for many years and whose father served in the Royal Air Force and Colonel Andrew Shepherd, UK Defence Attache.The unveiling ceremony at Klárov was accompanied by music performed by the Royal Air Force College band and by the Pipes and Drums of the Queen's Royal Hussars. The event was attended by nine former Czechoslovak RAF members.  Before the unveiling, Sir Nicholas Soames (the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill) gave a speech; he referred to the memorial as a symbol of the courage of the 2,500 Czechoslovak airmen and reminded the famous phrase of his grandfather, Churchill, who, speaking of the pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain, proclaimed that "never was so much owed by so many to so few." Immediately following  unveiling of the memorial a legendary aircraft Spitfire, in the livery of Squadron Leader Otto Smik DFC, made a flypast over Prague.
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