Chris Lock BEM

Chris Lock served in the Junior Leaders Regiment Royal Armoured Corps and 3rd Royal Tank Regiment. On conclusion of his military contract, Chris served with Avon Fire and Rescue Service for 27 years, mostly in the role of Crew Commander.

In 2006, Chris moved with his Czechoslovakia-born wife Milena Kolaříková to Ypres in Belgium, where they lived till 2018. Together they created a successful battlefield touring company Lest We Forget Battlefield Tours – Flanders. Chris founded the Tank Memorial Ypres Salient and initiated 'To Their Memory' commemorative plaque to the local WWII Resistance members, located on the wall of the Hotel Regina in Ypres. Together with Milena, they also organised annual remembrance ceremonies at the graves of the RAF airmen killed in action during the REF Operation Circus 157 on 5 May 1942.

Chris was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in 2023 as founder of the Tank Memorial Ypres Salient, the Tank Corps Garden of Remembrance, Belgium and his extensive remembrance work.