Notable and Artistic Monuments for RAF Crew

Re 12 Squadron etc etc...Somewhere on http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/
... there is a thread dedicated to links to obscure RAF Squadron's websites that do not seem to come up in Google Searches.

- If someone has the link... pop it in here please! Thanks!

 

No. 15 Squadron RAF Blenheim P6914 lost 1940-05-12 near Gellik Belgium

 

Blenheim L8734 Monument

From a collection of pictures of the Memorial at: https://plus.google.com/photos/102244853636534098320/albums/6097436647877812513

 

Ole Ronnest, a retired Danish police forensics officer, has devoted more than 30 years of his life to researching and recording the history of this and many other raids.
He has been honoured for his work by the award of an MBE – an unusual honour for a foreign national, but reflecting the great admiration that everyone who has met him has.

In 1990 Ole organised the return of a propeller off Blenheim R3800 which crashed in the Limfjord (Aalborg Denmark Aug 13th 1940) during this raid and which now stands
at the old entrance to RAF Watton as a Memorial to All those of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth Air Forces killed whilst operating from RAF Watton and Bodney.
http://www.thebrecklandview.com/2013/08/17/raf-aircrew-remembered-in-denmark/

https://aviationtrails.wordpress.com/choose-your-trail/trail-9-swaffham-and-her-neighbours-part-2/

82 Squadron lost 11 of 12 Blenheims, costing 20 lives and 13 POW on this raid. (The 12th aircraft returned early with technical problems.)
25 Luftwaffe Fighters were based at the airfield and 6 Me109ss had just arrived. http://www.luftwaffe.no/claim1.htm
Flak was adjusted accurately to their 7000' altitude half way through the bombing mission.

See an excellent report on the day at: http://www.airmen.dk/p014aalb.htm

82 Sqdn Memorial Aalborg Denmark VADUM CEMETERY, Coll. grave C.



From: https://aviationtrails.wordpress.com/raf-and-usaaf-memorials/

 

RAF Bungay Sufflok Memorial

Again from http://www.airfieldarchaeology.co.uk/bungay.html

 

Hampden AD750 and Wellington R1374 Memorial 44 Loire-Atlantique Pont St Martin France

 

99 Sqdn Wellington T2957 Memorial at Kemzeke Belgium. It crashed on July 31, 1941.

Among the names of the political prisoners, civilian victims and members of the resistance are in the top left corner of the six names of the crew of Wellington T2957.
http://www.luchtvaarterfgoed.be/content/monument-crash-wellington-t2957-99-sqn

 

Philippine Holland Monument to Bristol Blenheim V5859

From: http://nl.tracesofwar.com/artikel/21545/Monument-Bristol-Blenheim-V5859.htm



Excellent Memoriam for Bristol Blenheim V5859:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orLF5LgYkvk

 

CHARLEROI C.W.G. BELGIUM Polish MEMORIAL
305 RAF Polish Squadron Wellington W5593
304 RAF Polish Squadron Wellington Z1088

 

Another roadside eye catcher. From http://www.aerosteles.net/steleen-pontdouilly-lancpolonais

RAAF Polish 300 Squadron Lancaster DV278 Memorial, Pont-d'Ouilly France.

 

There is a new memorial to be erected at Canwick Hill in Lincoln this weekend . It arrives 8.00am Sunday 10th May. More here https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lincolnshire-Bomber-Command-Memorial/441005595951689.

 

Very nice job on this thread. Thanks

Any pictures of some of the beautiful stained glass windows I seen over the years (not in person) that pay tribute to air crews?

 

Man, you just brought up some memories. Yes, I have seen some beautiful Stained Glass memorials. Can't for the life of me remember where.

PS:
Stayed at the Bank Of Englands Presidents mansion near Tumbredge Wells if I remember correctly. Used to be property of Canterbury Cathedral in the old days.
I volunteered there at a traditional English Folk Music Festival as a fundraiser for Canterbury Cathedral.
He had a massive long 20' high hedge, with the tops cut into the shape of the favorite toys of each of his sons he lost in the RAF in WW2.
Like an idiot I did not take any pictures.

That famous Morris Dance Troup that does traditional English dance would only come if 12 kegs of Mead Beer were provided.
They were specially made by Tartan Brewery for the event. I got plastered. One of life's most embarrassing moments that night. Sigh...

Blur The Wassailing Song
(Mead Beer.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJJuUOjT6L0