Tangmere Memorial Garden


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Reference WMO/301195

Address:

Tangmere Museum

Gamecock Terrace

Tangmere

PO20 2ES

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Other
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Other
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: The garden contains a variety of different sized and placed relics, plaques, monuments and memorials.
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Main memorial plinth: THIS GARDEN WAS OPENED BY/ THE DUKE OF RICHMOND/ AND GORDON/ ON 17 SEPTEMBER 1994 Main memorial plinth front plaque: TANGMERE MEMORIAL GARDEN/ PLEASE RESPECT THIS GARDEN/ PLEASE DO NOT SMOKE OR BRING/ FOOD OR DRINK INTO THE GARDEN/ SORRY, NO DOGS ALLOWED Birdbath plaque: WITH GRATEFUL APPRECIATION FOR THE HELP/ AND ASSISTANCE GIVEN BY THE/ BRITISH WAR WIDOWS AND ASSOCIATES/ IN CREATING THIS GARDEN RAF Tangmere Chapel Cross brass plaque: (RAF badge) THIS CROSS WAS/ REMOVED IN 1984/ WHEN THE CHAPEL AT R.A.F. TANGMERE/ WAS DEMOLISHED Plaque below RAF Tangmere chapel cross: THIS MEMORIAL GARDEN HAS BEEN CREATED BY/ MANY WHO WISH TO REMEMBER THEIR LOVED ONES IN THIS/ PEACEFUL HAVEN ADJOINING THE TANGMERE AIRFIELD/ AND THE GENEROUS GRANTING OF USAGE BY THE/ CHICHESTER DIOCESAN HOUSING ASSOCIATION Plaque on domed pagoda: The dome above was originally located on/ the roof of the guardhouse by the main/ entrance of RAF Tangmere./ It contains the original wood now covered/ in glass fibre for protection Memorial stone beneath pagoda: (RAF crest)/ +/ AT THE GOING DOWN/ OF THE SUN/ AND IN THE MORNING/ WE WILL/ REMEMBER THEM

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