Honington, Suffolk

Honington
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May 1937
​March 1994 (closed to flying)
Royal Air Force
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​RAF Honington - Official Site

AIRFIELD SITE : 29 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment Sign

AIRFIELD SITE : Aerial Views of RAF Honington Airfield

AIRFIELD SITE : Control Tower

AIRFIELD SITE : Control Tower / Watch Office for All Commands

AIRFIELD SITE : ​FC Oakington Pillbox

LOCATED AT : ​52.350652, 0.787161
EDOFBID : ​e02627

AIRFIELD SITE : Fire Station

AIRFIELD SITE : Gymnasium

AIRFIELD SITE : Rapier Missile Trainer

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 09/27

AIRFIELD SITE : St Edmunds Station Church

AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiways

AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 01

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AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 07

AIRFIELD SITE : V-Bomber Dispersals

BUILDING 1 : Hangar / "C" Type Aircraft Shed

BUILDING 3 : Hangar / "C" Type Aircraft Shed

BUILDING 13 : Central Heating Station

BUILDING 17 : Lubricant and Inflammable Store

BUILDING 19 :Dining Room & Institute

BUILDING 23 : Petrol Tanker Shed (3 Bay)

BUILDING 25 : Sergeants Mess & Quarters

BUILDING 27 : Hangar / "C" Type Aircraft Shed

BUILDING 28 : Station Sick Quarters

BUILDING 30 : Hangar / "C" Type Aircraft Shed 'The Jimmy James Hangar'

BUILDING 31 : Ambulance Garage & Mortuary

BUILDING 32 : 25 Yard Machine Gun Range

LOCATED AT : ​52.337426, 0.770212
EDOFBID : ​e10382

BUILDING 35 : Station Headquarters & Offices

BUILDING 37 : Water Tower & Works Services Buildings

BUILDING 55 : Officers Mess

BUILDING 71 : Barrack Block

BUILDING 72 : Barrack Block

BUILDING 73 : Barrack Block

BUILDING 75 : Barrack Block

BUILDING 76 : Barrack Block

BUILDING 78 : Barrack Block

BUILDING 96 : Practice Bomb Store & Gas Chamber

BUILDING 228 : Latrine

BUILDING 228 : Latrine

BUILDING 230 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter

HAS 4

BUILDING 233 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter

HAS 8

BUILDING 234 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter

HAS 9

BUILDING 236 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter

HAS 7

BUILDING 238 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter

HAS 10

BUILDING 237 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter

HAS 2

BUILDING 240 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter

HAS 5

BUILDING 241 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter

HAS 6

BUILDING 242 : Unknown

BUILDING 243 : Hardened Aircraft Shelter

HAS 12

BUILDING 243 : Unknown

BUILDING 244 : Unknown

BUILDING 252 : Storage Igloo

EXTERNAL BOMB STORES (WARTIME) : Air Raid Shelter

LOCATED AT : ​52.334035, 0.769746

EXTERNAL BOMB STORES (WARTIME) : Fusing Point (Site of)

LOCATED AT : ​52.333534, 0.770812

EXTERNAL BOMB STORES (WARTIME) : Fusing Point (Site of)

LOCATED AT : ​52.334176, 0.769645

EXTERNAL BOMB STORES (WARTIME) : Fusing Point (Site of)

LOCATED AT : ​52.334209, 0.768559

EXTERNAL BOMB STORES (WARTIME) : Open Bomb Store

LOCATED AT : ​52.332733, 0.773522

EXTERNAL BOMB STORES (WARTIME) : Open Bomb Store

LOCATED AT : ​52.332920, 0.772385​

EXTERNAL BOMB STORES (WARTIME) : Warning Sign

MEMORIAL SITE : All Saints Church, Honington

Buried in this church yard are:
​Sergeant Robert Carson Alderson (Royal Canadian Air Force)
​Chief Technician D W Amis (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant John Amphlett (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Corporal David Lewis Anthony (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Ross James Archer (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant William Argo (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Starszy Sierzant-Podchorazy Romauld Bojarczuk (Polish Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant R S Bristow (Royal Air Force)
Senior Aircraftman J Bryce (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Thomas Arthur Bunting (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant K Cattan (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Colin Charles Cameron (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer John Frank ​Chandler (Royal Air Force)
Chief Technician J D D Clark (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Bruce Innes Clifford-Jones (Royal Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant Philip Henry Creswell (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Sergeant N H Crowther (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer James Frederick Deck (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Warrant Officer Terrence De Valera Dignan (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Eric Edwin Eglinton (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
John Forrester & Brian John Forrester
Flight Sergeant William Rehfeld Harron (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Stanley Hawkins (Royal Air Force)
Rifleman Norman Herbert John Haywood (King's Royal Rifle Corps)
Senior Aircraftman W C Hicks (Royal Air Force)
Assaf Hildebrandt (German Air Force)
Sergeant S A Higgins (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Alan Crawford Holdaway (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant John Monteith Hubbert (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant William Hutchinson (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Lieutenant D S Jackson (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Jiri Janousek (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant John Whiteside Jasper (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Sergeant R H Johnson (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Richard Glynne Jones (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Julian W Jucha (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Michael John Kelly (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Lieutenant Stephen John Kershaw (Royal Navy)
Surgeon Lieutenant Damian J E Kershaw (Royal Navy)
Sergeant Jan Krivda ​(Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Podporucznik Jozef Stanislaw Kulinski (Polish Air Force)
Bernhard Lahme (German Air Force)
Squadron Leader Lennox Stanley Lamb (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Karel Lang (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Jindrich Liebold (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Wellington James Loney (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Ernest John Lowater (Royal Australian Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class Hugh M McGreevy (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant William David Agnus McLeod (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Chief Technician K Morris (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Kenneth Herbert Mount (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Robert Beattie Murgatroyd (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Michael Ivor Nichols (Royal Air Force)
​Flight Sergeant Ronald Earl Oswald (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Pilot Officer P J Paines (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Painter (Royal Air Force)
Sierzant Karol Paliwoda (Polish Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman John Edward Parish (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Senior Aircraftman Thomas C Pattison (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Purdie (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Warren Thomas Ramley (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Pilot Officer Harold Rosofsky (Royal Air Force)
Heinrich Schaefer (German Air Force)
Chief Technician G M Scott (Royal Air Force)
Air Commodore John Henry Searby DSO DFC (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Joseph Seberras (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant John Raymond Smith (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Henry Vernon Smith (Royal Air Force)
Squadron Leader M D Stephens (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Robert Douglas Telling (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer John Baldwin Thompson (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flying Officer Peter Edward Torkington-Leech (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Oldrich Tosovsky (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Jaromir Toul (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Peter Ungerer (German Air Force)
Pilot Officer Miloslav Vejrazka (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Jack Fisher Wallace (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Hugh Warby (Royal Air Force)
Podporucznik Jozef Waronski (Polish Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant J B P Wilding (Royal Air Force)
Wilhelm Wille (German Air Force)
Flight Sergeant James Averd Wilson (​Royal Canadian Air Force)

MEMORIAL SITE : Defence CBRN Wing (20 Wing RAF Regiment)

MEMORIAL SITE : First Royal Tank Regiment Memorial

MEMORIAL SITE : Giant California Redwoods

MEMORIAL SITE : Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S.2 (XK526)

MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Honington Memorial Garden

MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Honington WW2 Memorial

MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Regiment Bench

MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Regiment Memorial Garden

MEMORIAL SITE : Rapier Field Standard B1 (Modified)

MEMORIAL SITE : SAC C Dunsmore and SAC P McFerran Memorial

MEMORIAL SITE : SAC J D Baxter and SAC J M Reid Memorial

MEMORIAL SITE : SAC Jerry Dunstan GNR Memorial

MEMORIAL SITE : The Millennium Yew

MEMORIAL SITE : The Sowrey Room

MEMORIAL SITE : USAAF Memorial

MISCELLANEOUS : The Fox Inn

MUSEUM SITE : RAF Regiment Heritage Centre

MUSEUM SITE : RAF Regiment Museum