Memorial

Royal Air Force Apprentices Halton Grove

215 RAF Halton Apprentices Memorial Garden 1

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Plot 215 in Orange Zone between Giffard and Yeomanry Avenues, National Arboretum, Croxall Road, Alrewas, Lichfield, Staffordshire, DE137AR, England

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SK1829614580

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Memorial Details

Type of Memorial: Garden
WMR Reference Number: 68589
Description: Memorial garden in shape and design of the RAF Apprentices' insignia of a brass wheel, primarily made of terracotta/brick paving and coloured gravel enclosed within a beech hedge. There are pavers around the perimeter of the site commemorating different Apprentice Entries and individual apprentices. Decorative cast-iron gates with the years 1992-1993 above the Apprentices' insignia open and lead to a rough-cast irregular-shaped stone of remembrance with a rectangular inlaid brass plaque set on a decorative hard surface. The pathway to the stone and beyond to the centre of the garden is delineated with memorial stone tablets with commemorative inscriptions. The garden includes an information plaque on a plinth and individual remembrance plaques.
Inscription: (Insignia flanking each side and in the middle of the words "HALTON GROVE")/ THE RAF APPRENTICE SCHEME WAS FOUNDED IN 1920 / BY LORD TRENCHARD , "THE FATHER" OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE./ THIS GROVE COMMEMORATES THOSE BOYS WHO WERE/ TRAINED AT NO.1 SCHOOL OF TECHNICAL TRAINING RAF HALTON/ AS SKILLED TECHNICIANS AND ADMINISTRATORS , KNOWN/ AFFECTIONATELY AS "TRENCHARD BRATS"./ THE CENTERPIECE OF THE GROVE/ REPRESENTS THE FAMOUS RAF APPRENTICE "WHEEL" BADGE./WE REMEMBER WITH PRIDE AND SORROW / OUR COLLEAGUES WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE / DURING WWII AND THOSE LOST IN EARLIER/ AND LATER CAMPAIGNS/ "WHEN BEECH LEAVES ARE FALLING, WHERE-E'ER WE MAY ROAM,/ OLD MEMORIES COME CALLING OF HALTON AND HOME"/

Commemoration

War: Second World War (1939-1945)

War: Non-Specific Conflict

War: Regimental Memorials

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Royal Air Force Apprentices Halton Grove

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Royal Air Force Apprentices Halton Grove

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Memorial Details

Commemoration

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