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Manby, Lincolnshire

Manby / Grimoldby
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August 1938
1 April 1974
Agriculture / Industry
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6 August 2025
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AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Servicing Platform


AIRFIELD SITE : Control Tower


BUILDING 21 : Dining Room


BUILDING 31 : Barrack Block Type 'J'


BUILDING 34 : Guard House


BUILDING 35 : Fire Party, Tender Garage & Post Office


BUILDING 37 : Barrack Block Type 'B'


BUILDING 41 : Air Traffic Control Tower


BUILDING 46 : Station Headquarters

Known as 'Guy Gibson Hall'.

BUILDING 47 : Ambulance Garage


AIRFIELD SITE : Hangar / Type 'C' Aircraft Shed

Hangar 1

AIRFIELD SITE : Hangar / Type 'C' Aircraft Shed

Hangar 3

AIRFIELD SITE : Hangar / Type 'C' Aircraft Shed

Hangar 4

AIRFIELD SITE : Institute


AIRFIELD SITE : Instructional Block


AIRFIELD SITE : Lubricant & Inflammables Store


AIRFIELD SITE : Main Entrance


AIRFIELD SITE : Main Stores


AIRFIELD SITE : Main Workshops


AIRFIELD SITE : Mechanical Transport Sheds, Offices & Yard


AIRFIELD SITE : Officers Mess


AIRFIELD SITE : Officers Mess Garages


AIRFIELD SITE : Officers Mess Garages


AIRFIELD SITE : Parachute Store


AIRFIELD SITE : Ration Store


AIRFIELD SITE : Ready Use Pyrotechnic Store


AIRFIELD SITE : Sergeants Mess


AIRFIELD SITE : Squash Court


AIRFIELD SITE : Station Commanders House


AIRFIELD SITE : Station Education Section


AIRFIELD SITE : Station Sick Quarters


AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiways


AIRFIELD SITE : Tennis Courts


AIRFIELD SITE : Tennis Courts (Officers)


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 01


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 02


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 03


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 04


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 05


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 06


AIRFIELD SITE : Water Tower


MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Mary


MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Mary Churchyard

Buried and Remembered in this churchyard are:
Cadet Edward Arthur Barber (Air Training Corps)
Flight Sergeant William John Birmingham (Royal Australian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Alfred George Brown (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Reginald James Buxton (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Podporucznik Jerzy Cechrzycki (Polish Air Force)
​Wing Commander H A Conaghan (Royal Australian Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant Frederick Edgar Howard Cooper (Royal Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant A A Cronin (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant John Anthony Dent (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
​Group Captain Denis Dudgeon (Royal Air Force)
​Flying Officer William Ronald Easton (Royal Air Force)
Junior Technician J A Evans (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant W J Evans (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Andrew Fleming (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Adrian Harold Cooper Gill (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant S J Grainger (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Louis Marcel Andre Green (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Kapral Wladyslaw Stefan Halenda (Polish Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Francis Leon Joseph Hartnett (Royal Canadian Air Force)
​Wing Commander F M Hegarty (Royal Air Force)
Squadron Leader D N Hodges (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant R Huxford (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant William Henry Jones (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Leslie Murray (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftman Terence Ivor Parkyn (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Alexander Francis Pearson (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Thomas Powell (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Eric Frank Rawlings (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Duncan Maxwell Robertson (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Mark Reicher Royde (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Alfred John Russell (Royal Air Force)
Kapral Franciszek Skrzypczak (Polish Air Force)
Sergeant Stewart William Stockford (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Kenneth Norman Taylor (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Edward Noel Ward (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftman Frederick Alfred Watling (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Guy William Winder (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Donald Wormleighton​ (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)

MEMORIAL SITE : Grimoldby and Manby Village Sign


MEMORIAL SITE : The Manby / The Lancaster Inn

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