Notable and Artistic Monuments for RAF Crew

I have been running across a number of very artistic Monuments where local cites and towns have obviously hired notable local artists in order to honour the sacrifice these young men made.

I am hoping a bit of research can come up with the names of the artists that created them.

Please add any you think worth of being added here.

To start - Found at: http://www.weerstationoirsbeek.nl/flypast-brunssum

Lancaster R5701 OF-Y lost in Denmark on a mission to Aachen Oct 5th 1942
P/O N. Jim Briant DFC KIA
Sgt A.E.Musgrave KIA
P/O L.C.dorward DFC RAAF
KIA Sgt J.R.Dawson KIA
Sgt K.O.MacKay DFM KIA
Sgt A.H.J.G.Desmond KIA
P/O K.H.Harrison DFM KIA

I would picnic at this table.

 

Lancaster W4108 Memorial, Nieuwehorne
http://lostaircraft.com/images/database/DBM_ec49e7f1c6f8eb720207d51f09c56bd2.jpg

P/O E.F.Dowdell KIA
Sgt G.A.Walker KIA
P/O P.A.Vivian RNZAF KIA
Sgt J.J.W.Adams RCAF KIA
F/S R.Robertson KIA
Sgt R.L.Moss KIA
Sgt P.K.Jones KIA

 

Not the most artistic, but I just stumbled across this one. Its friends of friends. So personal to me.

No. 300 (Polish) Land of Masovia Bomber Squadron Lancaster ED814 lost 1944-06-30
See loss record at: http://www.lostaircraft.com/database.php?mode=viewentry&e=4758

Flight Sergeant Władysław F. Fudali Pilot killed P-78321
Sergeant Józef Bukowski Flight Engineer killed P-793105
Pilot Officer Bolesłesław M. Cwojdzinski Navigator killed P-2400
Flying Officer Zygmunt Ziembinski Bomb Aimer killed P-2248
Sergeant Ignacy Malecki WOp AG killed P-703117
Sergeant Klemens Felicjan Lechnicki Mid Upper Gunner killed P-703050
France 7 Sergeant Kazimierz Bogusz Rear Gunner P-782542

Look at those enlistment numbers. Two of those boys had been in the fray since before day one. Five full years in Bomber Command. Wow!



Polish War Cemetery at Langannerie, France where the crew is buried. Been there, seen that.
See: http://www.aerosteles.net/fiche.php?code=urville-lancastered814&lang=en

 

B-29 Memorial Plaza, Great Bend, Kansas



The favourite viewing angle.

 

Whitley Z6639 No 24 Operational Training Unit. From RAF Honeybourne Worcs

(I prefer the old pillar the memorial was on, more rustic and a lot more poignant.)

 

Not a bomber crew memorial. But worthy of including here.

- This one is the Hamburg Fire Bombing Memorial. Very poignant. Very moving.

 

Lancaster Bomber Memorial 4km S.W. of Hochfelden France - near Strasbourg
http://www.canadaatwar.ca/memorial/world-war-ii/154567/warrant-officer-frederick-charles-wrynn/

Loss record: http://www.lostaircraft.com/database.php?mode=viewentry&e=5009

 

RAF Lancaster Memorial Fagnes de Malchamps
- in the Musée de la Forët et des Eaux (Museum of Forests and Waters) - http://www.berinzenne.be/FR/musee.htm

 

75 Sqn RNZAF Lancaster ME752 Monument
http://en.tracesofwar.com/artikel/812/Monument-Lancaster-ME-752.htm

The text on the memorial:
AKE AKE KIA KAHA
(For ever and ever be strong)

The broken wing is so touching...

Loss Record: http://www.lostaircraft.com/database.php?mode=viewentry&e=13017

 

626 Squadron Lancaster DV190 Memorial Gardelegen Germany

Loss Report: http://www.lostaircraft.com/database.php?mode=viewentry&e=8835

 

On Bardney village green there is a memorial to RAF Bardney and 9 Squadron.
http://www.raf-lincolnshire.info/9sqn/9sqnmemorial.htm

(My family and I had many many friends from 9 Squadron, remembering they flew as sister squadron to 617 the Dambusters on many many missions...)

It is made from the three-bladed propeller and spinner from a Lancaster and a piece of Norwegian stone, mounted in a low wall.

The stone is from Kåfjord in Norway and marks the contribution of the Norwegian resistance in the Sqdn's attack against the German battleship Tirpitz.
This act is also recalled in a painting at RAFC Cranwell on the stairs leading to the College Hall Library.



Set into the wall is a plaque to the personnel in 9 Squadron.

 

Lancaster ED362 Memorial Rijsoord (Zuid Holland) lost June 28th 1943.
A horrendous day for RAF Bomber Command, with 241 KIA on the missions on the 28th & 29th.

Loss Report: http://www.lostaircraft.com/database.php?mode=viewentry&e=9658

 

57 Squadron Lancaster W4234 "V" for Victory Memorial St-Maria-Lierde (hamlet Kakebeke), Belgium

Loss Report: http://www.lostaircraft.com/database.php?mode=viewentry&e=3516



The memorial for the crew was erected in 2000.
Each year on a day in December close to the anniversary of the crash a short ceremony is organised.

 

Lancaster DS690 Memorial Fays les Veneurs Belgium

Loss Report: http://www.lostaircraft.com/database.php?mode=viewentry&e=10190

 

Lancaster PA985 Memorial (No crew injuries) Little Horwood, 6 miles ESE of Buckingham

Quite an eye catching fork in the road...

Loss Report: http://www.lostaircraft.com/database.php?mode=viewentry&e=4076

 

In my dreams...

Lancaster PA474 - Battle of Britain Memorial

PA474 flies over Derwent dam in the Peak District, to mark the 65th anniversary of the Dambusters raid.

(I have always wished that they would create a model and place it right here. What a sight that would be...)

 

Bois d'Arcy Memorial for 166 Sqdn Lancaster W4263 and 625 Sqd Lancaster ND742
http://www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/Kinchington.html

 

Houtrakpolder Holland Memorial for Lancaster JB659

Loss Report: http://www.lostaircraft.com/database.php?mode=viewentry&e=12332

 

617 Dambuster Squadron Lancaster NG288 Monument Karsibór Opslaan
- lost after bombing the heavy cruiser Lützow
http://nl.tracesofwar.com/artikel/18761/Monument-Avro-Lancaster-MkI-NG-288-Karsib%F3r.htm

Loss report: http://www.lostaircraft.com/database.php?mode=viewentry&e=5812
Website: http://www.bombercrew.com/617/felton.htm

 

Lancaster ME846 Memorial Mol-Postel Belgium

Loss Record: http://www.lostaircraft.com/database.php?mode=viewentry&e=11361