Memorial

Detling Airfield 1915-1945

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Current Location

Detling RAF Memorial, Pilgrims Way, Detling, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 3JX, England

TQ 79325 58382

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 43519
Description: A rectangular plaque set into a brick column built of Kentish Ragstone.
Inscription: THIS MEMORIAL/ COMMEMORATES THE UNITS AND SQUADRONS/ OF/ THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS/ THE ROYAL AIR FORCE/ THE ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE/ THE FLEET AIR ARM/ THE ARMY/ AND/ CIVILIAN PERSONNEL/ WHO SERVED AT DETLING AIR FIELD/ 1915 - 1945/ "THE SKY WAS SLATE GREY, AND SO DRAB AND/ MELANCHOLY WAS IT'S COLOUR THAT IT SEEMED A/ WORK OF MAN./ IT WAS A COLOUR OF INFINITE SORROW AND/ OCCASSIONALLY, IN A BREAK OF THE RAPID CLOUDS/ APPEARED A PALE STAR, SHIVERING IN THE COLD."/ S. MAUGHAN 1949/ "AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN/ AND IN THE MORNING/ WE WILL REMEMBER THEM"/ THIS MEMORIAL WAS UNVEILED BY/ MR & MRS W. E. NEWTON/ REPRESENTING DETLING AIRFIELD VETERANS/ AND DEDICATED ON/ SUNDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER 1998./ IT WAS THE INSPIRATION OF THE/ DETLING AIRFIELD MILLENIUM PROJECT GROUP/ F. CONN C. SAMSON R. BROOKS./ R. YOUNG CLLR. B. WHITE

Unveiled

6th September 1998

Local Clergy/Dignitaries

Plaque

Made from: Granite

Condition: Good

Column

Made from: Stone - Kentish Ragstone

Condition: Good