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    Memorial

    Royal Air Force Skellingthorpe

    RAF Skellingthorpe memorial

    Source: Copyright Colin Murray

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    Current Location

    On the left of the road into the Community Centre, Skellingthorpe Community Centre, Lincoln Road, Skellingthorpe, North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, LN6 5UT, England

    OS Grid Reference

    SK 92682 71677

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    © WMR-43196

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    Type of Memorial
    Board / Plaque / Tablet
    WMR Reference Number
    43196
    Description
    Convex headed stone tablet set on a brick base against a raised flowerbed, and enclosed by a semi circular brick wall with the entrance at the front. It is set on a semi circular base of coloured bricks in the form of an RAF roundel. The tablet is incised with the inscription picked out in gold, and coloured badges of 50 and 61 Squadrons Royal Air Force in the upper corners of the tablet. There are two small brass dedicatory plaques in the flower bed. Additionally just to the east of the memorial there is a village sign depicting a Lancaster aircraft.
    Inscription
    Tablet: ROYAL AIR FORCE SKELLINGTHORPE/ My brief sweet life is over/ My eyes no longer see/ No Christmas trees No summer walks/ No pretty girls for me/ I've got the chop - I've had it/ My nightly Ops are done/ Yet in another hundred years/ I'll still be twenty one/ R. W. Gilbert THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS PARISH/ IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE AIRMEN AND WOMEN/ OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AND OTHER ALLIED AIR FORCES/ WHO SERVED AT R.A.F. SKELLINGTHORPE/ WITHIN THIS PARISH/ 1941 - 1945 Sgt R W Owen plaque: (see WM Reference 54161 for details) Cliff Chapman plaque: DEDICATED TO/ CLIFF CHAPMAN/ 1924-2002/ (A SKELLY LAD)/ FLEW FROM/ SKELLINGTHORPE/ 50 SQD
    War
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Sponsor Type
    public

    Ceremonies

    Unveiled

    02 June 1991

    Unknown

    Components

    Tablet

    Height: c700mm

    Width: c1000mm

    Depth: c80mm


    Made from: Marble - Black


    Condition: Good


    Base

    Made from: Brick


    Condition: Good


    • Air Force Memorials of Lincolnshire 3rd edition by Ingham, Mike 51 Published:Midland Publishing Limited 1990 Leicester