Memorial Crash Halifax Bomber

Text on the memorial:
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ON THIS SITE IN AUGUST 1944 A DISABLED ROYAL CANADIAN AIR
FORCE HALIFAX III BOMBER CRASHED ON RETURN FROM A
BOMBING MISSION, RESULTING IN THE DEATHS OF TWO CREW
MEMBERS AND ONE CIVILIAN.

THIS CAIRN, IN THE SHADE OF A CANADIAN MAPLE TREE, IS ERECTED
TO HONOUR ALL THOSE WHO SERVED WITH THE RCAF SIX GROUP
SQUADRONS AT SKIPTON ON SWALE DURING W W II, AND THE MANY
CIVILIANS WHO SUPPORTED THEM. MAY THEIR ENTERPRISE,
COURAGE AND DEVOTION TO DUTY BE REMEMBERED AND SERVE AS
AN INSPIRATION TO ALL.

DEDICATED MAY 19, 1984 BY A GROUP INCLUDING GRATEFUL SURVIVORS.

'THIS WAS THEIR FINEST HONOUR'

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Gordon Hatton