Bircham Newton, Norfolk
Bircham Newton / Great Bircham
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May 1918
18 December 1962 Construction Industry Training Board College N/A N/A N/A 12 April 2026 N/A www.rafbnmp.org.uk/ |
AIRFIELD SITE : Aerial Views of RAF Bircham Newton Airfield
AIRFIELD SITE : Air Raid Shelter
LOCATED AT : 52.87491, 0.66232
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AIRFIELD SITE : Battle Headquarters
LOCATED AT : 52.88135, 0.65322
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AIRFIELD SITE : Observation Post / Secondary Battle Headquarters
LOCATED AT : 52.874602, 0.663139
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EDOFBID : e11375
AIRFIELD SITE : Pickett-Hamilton Retractable Fort
LOCATED AT : 52.87374, 0.64898
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AIRFIELD SITE : Type FW3/22 Pillbox
LOCATED AT : 52.873948, 0.638096
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AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 01
AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 02
AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 03
BUILDING 1 : Station Headquarters
BUILDING 3 : Tennis Court
BUILDING 10 : Petrol Installation
BUILDING 13 : Hangar / Bellman Aircraft Shed
BUILDING 14 : Hangar / C Type Aircraft Shed
BUILDING 16 : Sergeants Mess
BUILDING 18 : Ration Store
BUILDING 21 : Single Sergeants Quarters
BUILDING 22 : Operations Block
BUILDING 26 : Sick Quarters & Annexe
BUILDING 28 : Decontamination Block
BUILDING 30 : Disinfector Building
BUILDING 32 : Central Heating Station
BUILDING 36 : FFMT Shed
BUILDING 38 : Barrack Block (Type 8/56)
BUILDING 42 : Airmens Garages
BUILDING 43 : Works Services Building
BUILDING 44 : Grocery Shop & Store
BUILDING 45 : Barrack Block (Type C)
BUILDING 46 : Barrack Block (Type C)
BUILDING 47 : Barrack Block (Type C)
BUILDING 48 : Barrack Block (Type C)
BUILDING 49 : Dining Room & Institute
BUILDING 58 : Unknown
BUILDING 63 : S.A.A Store
BUILDING 65 : Barrack Block
BUILDING 66 : Parade Ground
BUILDING 67 : Barrack Block (Type 8/84)
BUILDING 68 : Barrack Block (Type 8/84)
BUILDING 70 : Barrack Block (Type 8/56)
BUILDING 75 : Armoury & Photographic Section
BUILDING 78 : Main Stores (Old)
BUILDING 80 : Station Cinema
BUILDING 82 : Hangar / C Type Aircraft Shed
BUILDING 83 : Fire Tender Shelter & NFE Store
BUILDING 84 : Control Tower / Watch Office With Tower
BUILDING 90 : Workshops (Old)
BUILDING 91 : Latrine
BUILDING 92 : Parachute Store
BUILDING 93 : Power House (Old)
BUILDING 94 : High Level Tank
BUILDING 95 : Booster House
BUILDING 96 : Reservoir (100,000 Gallon)
BUILDING 97 : S.A.A Store
BUILDING 98 : Oil Store
BUILDING 99 : Power Station
BUILDING 100 : Fire Party House
BUILDING 101 : Guard House
BUILDING 113 : Bore Hole & Pump House
BUILDING 115 : Main Workshops
BUILDING 116 : Hangar / C Type Aircraft Shed
BUILDING 117 : Latrine
BUILDING 121 : Parachute Store
BUILDING 122 : Gas Defence Centre
BUILDING 125 : Fuel Compound
BUILDING 126 : Roman Catholic Church
BUILDING 127 : Link Trainer Building
BUILDING 128 : Tailors Shop
BUILDING 130 : Main Stores
BUILDING 131 : Petrol Tanker Shed
BUILDING 132 : Hangar / Bellman Aircraft Shed
BUILDING 133 : Hangar / Bellman Aircraft Shed
BUILDING 138 : Gas Chamber & Practice Bomb Store
BUILDING 142 : MT Shed
BUILDING 143 : Detached MT Shed
BUILDING 146 : MT Shed
BUILDING 147 : MT Office
BUILDING 150 : Married Officers Quarters
BUILDING 151 : Garage
BUILDING 152 : Officers Mess
BUILDING 153 : Squash Racquets Court
BUILDING 158 : Officers Garages
BUILDING 159 : Officers Garages
BUILDING 161 : Accommodation Office (Old Sick Quarters)
MEMORIAL SITE : Anson Way
MEMORIAL SITE : A Video of the War Graves at the Church of St Mary
War Graves at Great Bircham, Norfolk - 14 September 2024
MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Mary
MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Mary War Graves
Buried and Remembered in this Churchyard are:
Pilot Officer Herbert Gregory Ballantyne (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class G Berry (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Robert William Antony Biddlecombe (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Heinz Biesterfeld (German Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Stuart Corliss Black (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Pilot Officer Peter Hardy Blake (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer John Thomas Blease (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Raeside Harley Brown (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Lawrence Buxton (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Lieutenant Harold John Callin (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Warrant Officer Class II Paul Brewer Campbell (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class Richard Chadwick (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Richard William Tudor Clarke (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Colin Wynne Cotterill (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer James Waldron Creeden (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Arthur Fraser Dallas (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Flying Officer Llewellyn Alfred Davies (Royal Australian Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class Percival Albert Davis (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant James Albert Easton (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Rudolf Faath (German Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Farwell (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Henry Edward Middleton Featherstone (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Anthony Barrington Giles (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Ronald Arnold Hadley (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Frederick William Hall-Jones (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Sergeant James Hanley Hamill (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Pilot Officer William Hollingsworth (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Ralph King Howson (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Helmut Kaschner (German Air Force)
Pilot Officer Angus Llyod Kippen (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Pilot Officer Anthony Francis Nielsen Ladefoged (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Ronald Percy Lea (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Archibald Leeson (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Nelson Leftly (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Karl Lessmoellmann (German Air Force)
Sergeant Henry George Loates (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class Hilton Arthur Lonergan (Royal Australian Air Force)
Flying Officer Kenneth Reginald Maffre (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Raymond Earl Manser (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Allan Jeremiah McPhee (Royal Canadian Air Froce)
Aircraftman 1st Class George Alexander Meridew (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Franklin Lewis Morgan (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant John Herbert Moss (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Alfred Hall Murphy (Royal Air Force)
Warrant Officer Zina Maniford Niblock (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Douglas Emanuel Parks (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Alexander Granton Patrick (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flying Officer William Smith Patterson (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Pilot Officer Ernest Russell Phillips (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Robert Clarke Porter (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer John Sinclair Priestley (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Gilbert James Prince (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Pilot Officer Ian Prosser (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftwoman 1st Class Audrey Honor Reeve (Women's Auxiliary Air Force)
Flying Officer Jack Rhodes (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Robert Norman Riddell (Royal Air Force)
Jakob Ried (German Air Force)
Emil Rodel (German Air Force)
Flying Officer John Douglas Bias Rowlands (Royal Australian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant James Chadd Rudd (Royal Australian Air Force)
Pilot Officer Robin Rustom (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Norman Alfred Sadler (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Corporal Charles Sampson (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Wilfred Albert Sanger (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Eric Oliver Ferdinand Schmid (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Helmut Seidel (German Air Force)
Bruno Skibitzki (German Air Force)
Pilot Officer John Oscar Lloyd Stephenson (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Arthur Roy Thomas (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Ernest Townend (Royal Air Force)
Guenther Truckenbrodt (German Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant Arthur Frank Vokes (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Warrant Officer Class II Reginald Ernest Vokey (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Kenneth Leonard Wallace (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Horst Walther (German Air Force)
Pilot Officer Richard Ward (Royal Air Force)
Paul Weber (German Air Force)
Second Lieutenant James Mitchel Wright (South African Air Force)
Pilot Officer Herbert Gregory Ballantyne (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class G Berry (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Robert William Antony Biddlecombe (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Heinz Biesterfeld (German Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Stuart Corliss Black (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Pilot Officer Peter Hardy Blake (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer John Thomas Blease (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Raeside Harley Brown (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Lawrence Buxton (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Lieutenant Harold John Callin (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Warrant Officer Class II Paul Brewer Campbell (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class Richard Chadwick (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Richard William Tudor Clarke (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Colin Wynne Cotterill (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer James Waldron Creeden (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Arthur Fraser Dallas (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Flying Officer Llewellyn Alfred Davies (Royal Australian Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class Percival Albert Davis (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant James Albert Easton (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Rudolf Faath (German Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Farwell (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Henry Edward Middleton Featherstone (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Anthony Barrington Giles (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Ronald Arnold Hadley (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Frederick William Hall-Jones (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Sergeant James Hanley Hamill (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Pilot Officer William Hollingsworth (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Ralph King Howson (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Helmut Kaschner (German Air Force)
Pilot Officer Angus Llyod Kippen (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Pilot Officer Anthony Francis Nielsen Ladefoged (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Ronald Percy Lea (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Archibald Leeson (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Nelson Leftly (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Karl Lessmoellmann (German Air Force)
Sergeant Henry George Loates (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class Hilton Arthur Lonergan (Royal Australian Air Force)
Flying Officer Kenneth Reginald Maffre (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Raymond Earl Manser (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Allan Jeremiah McPhee (Royal Canadian Air Froce)
Aircraftman 1st Class George Alexander Meridew (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Franklin Lewis Morgan (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant John Herbert Moss (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Alfred Hall Murphy (Royal Air Force)
Warrant Officer Zina Maniford Niblock (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Douglas Emanuel Parks (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Alexander Granton Patrick (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flying Officer William Smith Patterson (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Pilot Officer Ernest Russell Phillips (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Robert Clarke Porter (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer John Sinclair Priestley (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Gilbert James Prince (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Pilot Officer Ian Prosser (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftwoman 1st Class Audrey Honor Reeve (Women's Auxiliary Air Force)
Flying Officer Jack Rhodes (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Robert Norman Riddell (Royal Air Force)
Jakob Ried (German Air Force)
Emil Rodel (German Air Force)
Flying Officer John Douglas Bias Rowlands (Royal Australian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant James Chadd Rudd (Royal Australian Air Force)
Pilot Officer Robin Rustom (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Norman Alfred Sadler (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Corporal Charles Sampson (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Wilfred Albert Sanger (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Eric Oliver Ferdinand Schmid (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Helmut Seidel (German Air Force)
Bruno Skibitzki (German Air Force)
Pilot Officer John Oscar Lloyd Stephenson (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Arthur Roy Thomas (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Ernest Townend (Royal Air Force)
Guenther Truckenbrodt (German Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant Arthur Frank Vokes (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Warrant Officer Class II Reginald Ernest Vokey (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Kenneth Leonard Wallace (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Horst Walther (German Air Force)
Pilot Officer Richard Ward (Royal Air Force)
Paul Weber (German Air Force)
Second Lieutenant James Mitchel Wright (South African Air Force)
MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Bircham Newton Memorial
MISCELLANEOUS : Great Bircham Village Sign
MISCELLANEOUS : RAF 100 Heritage Arts Trail
MUSEUM SITE : RAF Bircham Newton Heritage Centre
