Mystery donor secures WW2 Bomber Command memorial spire

[ranworthbreeze]

This is not a Broads topic but I am sure a number of the forum members may be interested.

 

A Mystery donor secures WW2 Bomber Command memorial spire in Lincolnshire.

Please see the following link for the full story:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-25823701

Regards

Alan

[Ebbtide]

Alan. Thanks for posting the link. Its good news. Someone has been extremely generous. I have been wondering how the project was progressing.

 

Maurice

[Hockham Admiral]

Lovely article, Alan, many thanks.

 

I started my RAF career in Bomber Command, as it was still known then, just 17 years after the war ended.

[SueH]

Hello

 

Lovely to see.  Although I did my RAF service long after these brave men did theirs.  I have always felt that they were forgotten and blamed for doing something that was their job and what they were ordered to.  The politicians have a lot to answer for!

 

Hopefully the vandals won't get to this marvellous monument and treat it with the respect it deserves.  In Bulford we had a WW1 bronze statue to recognise the work of all the Wiltshire soldiers during that time.  It was stolen and later found in a local scrap yard having been cut up and sold.

 

My military service was between 1975 and 1987, with only one proper tour in an operational station (Leuchars) - Akrotiri and Upavon were the other two.

 

SueH

 

 

[Ebbtide]

Sue. I know Canwick Hill well, where the monument will be erected. Its a nice area, and I don't think vandals will be attracted to it.

 

I know that many monuments/plaques have been stolen for scrap. Its become harder now to sell metals. The scrap yards are far better regulated than they were.

 

I am amazed that there are low life out they who do vandalise such things as war memorials, and cemeteries. Times  we live in!!

 

Maurice