RAF Spilsby

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Reference WMO/257139

Address:

School Lane

near Spilsby

PE23

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Field
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: This Memorial is dedicated to those who served at RAF Spilsby in WW2 , four stones set out in the morse code fot V for Victory ( Dot Dot Dot Dash ) also set as for Beethovens musical tune, all surmounted on a large base of the same material and surrounded by pebbles contained by a wooden border. The memorial site is separated off from the road by four black bollards. It is built on the base of the original crash tender shed and it supersedes the previous memorial dedicated in 2001 (ref 99938). Inscriptions and badges are all incised. Adjacent to the memorial is an information board describing the history of the base and memorial.
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Stone 1: (207 Squadron badge)/ 207 Bomber Squadron RAF/ October 1943 to October 1945/ 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron RAF/ September 1944 to July 1945 Stone 2: (Bomber Command badge)/ This commemorative site/ is dedicated to/ All the men and women/ Who served at this airfield/ September 1943/ to/ October 1945 Stone 3: (Royal Air Force Group Headquarters badge)/ Close to this site/ On Monday, 10 April 1944/ an accident in the Bomb Dump/ cost the lives of ten/ of the Squadron's Armourers/ three who have/ No Known Grave/ LEST WE FORGET Stone 4: RAF SPILSBY/ "Remember me for I was here"

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