Catalogue of Memorials to fallen WW2 Airmen.

This site is intended to become a comprehensive catalogue of Air Force Memorials in the UK relating to World War 2, however it is currently UNDER CONSTRUCTION, and probably always will be. All Counties under current survey are listed in the main menu. Click on the thumbnails for a full view.

Why?

You may well ask.

In 1998 my Mother gave me a photo of my late Father, Charles Reginald Ellis, taken 50 years earlier in 1948.

Well, not just him, as you can see there are some other people in the same shot.  He is top row, extreme left of the picture, so he's easy to find.

At the same time I was about to decorate my home office (I was between girl friends and couldn't think of anything better to do.)

Having hung the photo on the wall, I thought what next? 

A trip to the restored ops. room at RAF Digby gave me an idea, and suddenly I was working in a "Changing Rooms" styled environment;

For some reason, at this point, I began to become more and more interested in the memorials dotted around the Country, and one evening in the twilight, standing in the open, lonely countryside reading the words on one of them about the young men lost, I felt suddenly moved.  I'd like to say I know where this epiphany happened, but I simply can't remember. 

But the feeling that the least I can do is try to remember the dead and the sacrifice they made swept over me and I began to search out the existing memorials so that I could visit them and somehow help the men they honoured to live on, if only for a few moments, and only in my mind.

I haven't been able to find a single comprehensive catalogue, and it has now become a basic drive in me to put one together.  So here it is- or at least it's beginnings.

Robin Ellis.

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