RAF Alness (Invergordon)


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Reference WMO/282818

Address:

Alness Business Park

Alness

IV17 0UP

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Stone of remembrance
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: An upright stone slab, with thin hewn rock sides, having RAF wings badge at top, the Coastal Command badge with etchings of a Catalina and Sutherland Flying boats on either side then an inset metal plaque with dedication underneath. Enter Alness Business Park from A9, the memorial is on the right after the pond.
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On the Stone-: ROYAL AIR FORCE / ALNESS (INVERGORDON) /UNVEILED ON/16 OCTOBER 2001/BY/ JOHN CRUICKSHANK V.C. /ERECTED BY ROSS & CROMARTY ENTERPRISE 2001/ WITH ASSISTANCE FROM/THE AIRCREW ASSOCIATION/AND/NOVAR WINDFARM/COMMUNITY FUND PLAQUE: THIS MEMORIAL AT ALNESS POINT ON THE CROMARTY FIRTH, / MARKS THE SITE OF THE FORMER WORLD WAR TWO COASTAL COMMAND / FLYING-BOAT BASE AND IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ALL / WHO SERVED HERE - SOME OF WHOM BOUGHT / FREEDOM FROM TYRANNY AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR LIVES. / WE WILL REMEMBER THEM / THE FIRTH IN WAR TIMES WAS A HIGHLY ACTIVE AREA AND RAF INVOLVEMENT / INCLUDED OPERATIONS, TRAINING, SERVICING AND AIR-SEA RESCUE / SUPPORTED BY 88 MAINTENANCE UNIT (MARINE CRAFT) AT RAF MEIKLE FERRY / ON THE DORNOCH FIRTH / FROM 1938 THE FOLLOWING UNITS ARE RECORDED AS HAVING SERVED HERE: / 4 (COASTAL) OPERATIONAL TRAINING UNIT; / SQUADRONS: 201, 209, 210, 228, 240, 422(RCAF) AND 119(GR) SPECIAL DUTIES FLIGHT: / 5 FLYING-BOAT SERVICING UNIT, 6 AIR-SEA RESUCE (MARINE CRAFT UNIT), 102 WING, 1100 MARINE CRAFT UNIT, N0. 2 COMMUNICATIONS TRIALS UNIT. /THE BASE CLOSED IN 1986.

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