In association with The Wing Airfield Memorial.

A virtual online memorial to all those who lost their lives serving with 26 O.T.U. it will also include other major events and tragedies.

A month to month record of events, focusing mainly on Aircraft and Aircrew losses, also including in addition a summery of other events related to the airfields history.

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A Memorial for eight Lancaster crewmen (Four still missing) City of Cloppenburg, Staatsforsten, Germany.

Report from one of our researchers in Germany, Henning Hiesterman. (Translation from local Cloppenburg News report.)

Photo - The new Lancaster crew memorial at Staatsforsten.

Richard E Flagg of UK-Airfields, Attended the dedication of a new memorial in Syleham Suffolk on the 16th March 2024. Memorial dedication to the 8 crew who died in the crash of Avro Lancaster LM464 of 101 Squadron. They were returning from a raid over Frankfurt in the early hours of 19 March 1944 when they crashed in rural Suffolk. A plaque has been unveiled at the Village hall and another near to the crash site.
David King of the Aircrew Remembrance Society made contact with two of the relatives prior to this event and was able to offer assistance in the form of information regarding to the location of this crash. #ukairfields #aircrewremembrancesociety #lancaster #wewillrememberthem #remembrancedayiseveryday #101squadron #raf #remembrance #ww2 #aircrewmemorial

On 23.10.2016, a wonderful, impressive day in the middle of a foggy flower field directly at the crash site a wreath-laying ceremony took place.

Lancaster EE126 Crashed on the night of (19./20.02.1944) They were caught in searchlights and attacked by a Night Fighter near Meppen. Sadly three of the crew were killed, while the remainder became POWs.

On the 20th September 2008 a small plaque and cross was erected by The Aircrew Remembrance Society, in memory of the crew of B25 Mitchell FL193. In a short but moving ceremony the cross was unveiled by the daughter of one of the crew, Trish Masters. Trish in the company of her daughter Karina were there to remember father and grandfather, Sgt. Eric Bailey and his three comrades, killed at the site on the 21st September 1943, the event of the ceremony therefore taking place on the eve of the 65th anniversary of the crash. Pictures show Trish at the unveiling.

Blenheim R3912 Pawlett Hams

David is seen here prior to the aircraft recovery where he gave a speech in remembrance of the crew followed by a minutes silence. A plaque produced by the society in memory of the crew, was presented to the land owner at the end of the recovery.

On 30 October 1942, after a ten-hour mission, a Royal Air Force Liberator from RAF Beaulieu crashed at Fullamoor Farm on the southwestern edge of Plaster Down, resulting in the loss of six of the seven crew members.

The Memorial, as written by Rob Jones 1st October 2016.

(Left) A 224 Squadron Liberator. (Right) Proposed new designed memorial (Rob Jones)

Following research undertaken by our webmaster Alexander King, we were honoured to be invited to the home of Roy and Shirley Maddock-Lyon, to record Roy's exploits as a Flight Engineer flying Halifax's with No.10 Squadron Bomber Command. A three hour audio tape has now preserved Roy's story. Now aged 91 Roy gives his harrowing account of being shot down over Denmark, his evasion with the help of the Danish underground, and his work with them to bring valuable secret information back to England after escaping to Sweden, and returning in the bomb bay of a Mosquito on the Stockholm ball bearing run. 

(Left) Alex King with Roy Maddock-Lyon (Right) Roy during training in WW2