Cleethorpes: RAF North Coates Strike Wing

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Reference WMO/133713

Address:

Junction of High Cliff Road and Alexandra Road

Cleethorpes

DN35 8SE

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Serviceman/woman sculpture
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Bronze statue of an airman on a square stone plinth with four dedicatory plaques on each side of the plinth. Includes Canadian Armed Forces
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EAST: THE ROYAL AIR FORCE / NORTH COATES STRIKE WING / THIS MEMORIAL COMMEMORATES THE MEN / AND WOMEN WHO SERVED AS PILOTS, / NAVIGATORS AND GROUND PERSONNEL, / WHICH FORMED THE ROYAL AIR FORCE / NORTH COATES STRIKE WING / DURING WORLD WAR II. / FROM 1942 TO 1945 COVERING THE / COASTAL REGIONS OF NORWAY, DENMARK, / GERMANY, HOLLAND, BELGIUM AND FRANCE / FROM BERGEN TO THE SKAGGERAK, / THE FRISIAN ISLANDS, THE NORTH SEA, / THE ENGLISH CHANNEL AND / THE BAY OF BISCAY TO BORDEAUX. / OPERATING WITH BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER / AIRCRAFT ARMED WITH CANNON, BOMBS, / TOREDO AND ROCKETS THEY INFLICTED / HEAVY LOSSES AND DAMAGE TO SHIPPING, / DENYING FREEDOM OF THE SEA FOR SUPPLY / PURPOSES, FOR THE NAZI GERMAN FORCES / AND WAR INDUSTRY. OVER 150,000 TONS OF ENEMY SHIPPING / WAS DESTROYED. / THESE ATTACKS WERE MADE BY DAY & / NIGHT, FLYING AT VERY LOW ALTITUDE / IN COMBAT CONDITIONS OF VERY HEAVY / GERMAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE. / 120 AIRCRAFT FAILED TO RETURN AND / 241 AIRCREW FROM GREAT BRITIAN, / THE COMMONWEALTH AND OUR ALLIES / GAVE THEIR LIVES FLYING WITH / THE ROYAL AIRFORCE / NORTH COATES STRIKE WING / (NO'S 143, 236 AND 254 SQUADRONS). NORTH FACE: ALMIGHTY AND ALL PRESENT POWER, / SHORT IS THE PRAYER I MAKE FOR THEE: / I DO NOT ASK IN BATTLE HOUR / FOR ANY SHIELD TO COVER ME. / THE VAST UNALTERABLE WAY, / FROM WHICH THE STARS DO NOT DEPART / MAY NOT BE TURNED ASIDE TO STAY / THE BULLET FLYING TO MY HEART. / I ASK NO HELP TO STRIKE MY FOE; / I SEEK NO PRETTY VICTORY HERE, / THE ENEMY I HATE, I KNOW TO THEE IS DEAR / BUT THIS I PRAY: BE AT MY SIDE / WHEN DEATH IS DRAWING THROUGH THE SKY; / ALMIGHTY GOD WHO ALSO DIED, / TEACH ME THE WAY THAT I SHOULD DIE. / (FG OFF ERNEST RAYMOND DAVEY RCAF FROM LONDON, ONTARIO, CANADA KILLED IN ACTION 2-10-44 IN A 404 SQN BEAUFIGHTER ON THE DUTCH COAST.) WEST FACE: AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM / NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN, / AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN, / AND IN THE MORNING / WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM. SOUTH FACE: THE BEAUFIGHTER ('BEAU') / WHEN A 'BEAU' GOES IN, INTO THE DRINK / IT MAKES YOU THINK, BECAUSE YOU SEE THEY ALWAYS SINK / BUT NOBODY SAYS 'POOR LAD' OR GOES ABOUT LOOKING SAD / BECAUSE YOU SEE IT'S THE WAR, IT'S THE UNALTERABLE LAW. / ALTHOUGH IT'S PERFECTLY CERTAIN THAT THE PILOTS GONE FOR A BURTON / AND THE OBSERVER TOO, IT'S NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU / AND IF THEY BOTH SHOULD GO, TO A LAND, WHERE FALLS NO RAINS, / NOR HAIL, NOR DRIVEN SNOW, DO YOU SUPPOSE THEY CARE. / YOU AND HERALD, I CRY OR SAY A PRAYER OR SIGH, / IN THE COLD SEA, IN THE DARK, IT ISN'T A LARK / BUT IT ISN'T ORIGINAL SIN IT'S ONLY A 'BEAU' GOING IN. / GAVIN EWART

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