Norwich, Norfolk
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AIRFIELD SITE (NORFOLK & NORWICH HOSPITAL HELIPAD)
AIRFIELD SITE : Aerial View of the Helipad
AIRFIELD SITE : Helipad
AIRFIELD SITE (UEA HELIPAD)
AIRFIELD SITE : Aerial View of the Helipad
AIRFIELD SITE : Helipad
EXHIBITION SITES IN NORWICH
EXHIBITION SITE : Silver Wings - The US Army Air Forces In Norfolk
HISTORIC RECORD
The Forum, Norwich
MEMORIALS IN NORWICH
MEMORIAL SITE : 2nd Air Division Memorial Library
HISTORIC RECORD
2nd Air Division Memorial Library / American Library, The Forum
MEMORIAL SITE : 20th Centurty Norwich Millennium Tapestry
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital
MEMORIAL SITE : Aeronautical Firsts Blue Plaque
MEMORIAL SITE : American Library
2nd Air Division Memorial Library / American Library, The Forum
MEMORIAL SITE : Boulton & Paul Engineer Sculpture
Chantry Place (Formerly Chapelfield), Norwich
MEMORIAL SITE : Boulton & Paul Memorial
Riverside, Norwich
MEMORIAL SITE : Boulton & Paul Plaque
The Queen of Iceni, Riverside, Norwich
MEMORIAL SITE : Boulton Street Sign
HISTORIC RECORD
Named after the Boulton & Paul Company. The road still exists but the sign has been removed, it is not known if a replacement sign will be put back or not.
MEMORIAL SITE : Carrow Hill Air Raid Memorial
MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Barnabas
MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Benedict
MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Julian
MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Matthew
This church has is now a business centre and despite trying to arrange access, I am as yet unable to visit this memorial. The plaque inside reads:
IN SACRED MEMORY OF
2nd LIEUT A C THOULESS
NORFOLK REGT. ATT. R.F.C.
KILLED IN ACTION
IN MESOPOTAMIA. APRIL 26th 1916
AGED 19 YEARS
R.I.P.
IN SACRED MEMORY OF
2nd LIEUT A C THOULESS
NORFOLK REGT. ATT. R.F.C.
KILLED IN ACTION
IN MESOPOTAMIA. APRIL 26th 1916
AGED 19 YEARS
R.I.P.
MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Peter Mancroft
MEMORIAL SITE : City Hall Door
MEMORIAL SITE : Consolidated B-24 Liberator 'Lady Jane' Crash Memorial
Heigham Street, Norwich
MEMORIAL SITE : Consolidated B-24 Liberator (44-40283) 'Lassie Come Home' Crash Memorial
Spynke Road, Norwich
MEMORIAL SITE : Edith Cavell Grave
MEMORIAL SITE : Edith Cavell Memorial
MEMORIAL SITE : Edith Cavell Memorial Cross
MEMORIAL SITE : Edith Cavell Memorial Plaque
MEMORIAL SITE : Hampden (L4173) Crash Memorial
Overbury Road, Norwich
MEMORIAL SITE : Jaguar Aircrew Memorial. Sepecat Jaguar GR.1 (XW563)
County Hall, Norwich
MEMORIAL SITE : Japanese Peace Garden
Chapelfield Gardens, Norwich
MEMORIAL SITE : Le Paradis Massacre Memorial
MEMORIAL SITE : Maurice Raes Close
MEMORIAL SITE : Memorial to Two RAF Crashes
Long Valley, Mousehold Avenue
MEMORIAL SITE : Norwich Air Raids Memorial
MEMORIAL SITE : Norwich Cathedral
MEMORIAL SITE : Norwich City Cemetery
Buried and Remembered in this Cemetery are:
Aircraftman 2nd Class Victor Edward Allman (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Francis Amies (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftman James Henry Attwood (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class William Albert Augood (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class John Thomas Balding (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Percy Norman Bangay (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Colin William Bidwell Barton (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Israel Perach Benjamin (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
1st Lieutenant Jack E Berglund (United States Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman George William Blackburn (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Second Lieutenant Wilfred Ernest Hill Blyth (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Raymond William Body (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Werner Böllert (German Air Force)
Wing Commander Peter McCall Bond (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Bradley (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer William Stanley Francis Brown (Royal Air Force)
Corporal William Bullock Brunning (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Francis Tate Buck (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Rudolf Bucksch (German Air Force)
Sergeant Leslie Bertram Burrows (Royal Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant Wilfred Lawrie Cameron (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Cadet Cyril Ignatius Casserly (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Herman George Collings (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Henry Spencer Cook (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Joseph Samuel Cornfield (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Bertie Harry Cosby (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Aidan Francis Cullen (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Air Mechanic 3rd Class Otto Lewis Davy (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Dennis Frank Dickerson (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Charles Richardson Digges (Royal Australian Air Force)
Sergeant Horace Edward Dolman (Royal Australian Air Force)
Sergeant jack Doy (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Arthur Henry Estcourte (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Brian Ernest Evanson (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Neville Arnold Foster Folkard (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Cecil Henry Funnell (Royal Air Force)
Corporal Albert Robert Gant (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant John Adrian Gibbs (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Private 1st Class George Samuel Griffiths (Royal Air Force)
Lieutenant Gordon William Hall (Royal Flying Corps)
Sergeant Sidney Francis Hanchett (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Ernest Samuel William Hatch (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Friedrich Heilmann (German Air Force)
Sergeant Stanley Godfrey Hill (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftman R C Hook (Royal Navy)
Flying Officer Wallace James Horne (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftman Herbert Howes (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant John Ernest Jackson (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Warrant Officer George William Arthur Jessett (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Robert George Ephraim Kater (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Second Lieutenant Milton Elroy Kidder (Royal Flying Corps)
Flying Officer Kenneth Malcolm Laird (Royal Air Force)
Air Mechanic 2nd Class William Emery Laws (Royal Flying Corps)
Sergeant Philip Maurice Lay (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Lieutenant Robin Le Brasseur (Royal Flying Corps)
Flight Sergeant James Edward Lemon (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Second Lieutenant Myer Joseph Levine (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Marrison (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Corporal Dennis Ormond George Matthews (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Vincent Maxted (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Plutonowy Leon Nazarkiewicz (Polish Air Force)
Sergeant Ernest Ivo Nightingale (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant William James North (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Leroy Joseph O'Connor (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Jack Leonard Frederick Ottaway (Royal Air Force)
Albert Otterbach (German Air Force)
Flying Officer Robert Victor Paul (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
2nd Lieutenant Joseph Leo Philips (Royal Flying Corps)
Flying Officer Frank Joseph Plant (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Royal Potter (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftman J Raymond (Royal Air Force)
Plutonowy Henryk Sakowicz (Polish Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Irving Louis Sanitsky (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Pilot Officer Arthur Mitchell Saunders (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant John Henry Sharpe (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant James Pierson Shaw (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant John Edward Sheridan (Royal Australian Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class John Walter Sidell (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Josef Simon (German Air Force)
Corporal Herbert Edward George Smith (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Alan George Snelling (Royal Air Force)
Plutonowy Kazimierz Jan Socha (Polish Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Solomon (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Matthias Speuser (German Air Force)
Kapral Zbigniew Mieczysław Stasiak (Polish Air Force)
Pilot Officer Alan Mills Stewart (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Plutonowy Konrad Edward Kazimierz Szutka (Polish Air Force)
Aircraftwoman 2nd Class Betty Marion Taylor (Women's Auxiliary Air Force)
Pilot Officer David Carl Taylor (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Thomas James Thurling (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Plutonowy Aleksander Trzciński (Polish Air Force)
Warrant Officer D A J Turner (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Leslie James Gordon Wakefield (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer William Ross Watson (Royal Air Force)
Air Mechanic 2nd Class Joseph White (Royal Air Force)
Lieutenant Patrick Dalrymple Willes (Royal Air Force)
Starszy Sierżant Tadeusz Woźniak (Polish Air Force)
Air Mechanic 3rd Class Frank Young (Royal Air Force)
Starszy Szeregowiec Eugenia Zagajewska (Polish Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Victor Edward Allman (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Francis Amies (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftman James Henry Attwood (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class William Albert Augood (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class John Thomas Balding (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Percy Norman Bangay (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Colin William Bidwell Barton (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Israel Perach Benjamin (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
1st Lieutenant Jack E Berglund (United States Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman George William Blackburn (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Second Lieutenant Wilfred Ernest Hill Blyth (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Raymond William Body (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Werner Böllert (German Air Force)
Wing Commander Peter McCall Bond (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Bradley (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer William Stanley Francis Brown (Royal Air Force)
Corporal William Bullock Brunning (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Francis Tate Buck (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Rudolf Bucksch (German Air Force)
Sergeant Leslie Bertram Burrows (Royal Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant Wilfred Lawrie Cameron (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Cadet Cyril Ignatius Casserly (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Herman George Collings (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Henry Spencer Cook (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Joseph Samuel Cornfield (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Bertie Harry Cosby (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Aidan Francis Cullen (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Air Mechanic 3rd Class Otto Lewis Davy (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Dennis Frank Dickerson (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Charles Richardson Digges (Royal Australian Air Force)
Sergeant Horace Edward Dolman (Royal Australian Air Force)
Sergeant jack Doy (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Arthur Henry Estcourte (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Brian Ernest Evanson (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Neville Arnold Foster Folkard (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Cecil Henry Funnell (Royal Air Force)
Corporal Albert Robert Gant (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant John Adrian Gibbs (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Private 1st Class George Samuel Griffiths (Royal Air Force)
Lieutenant Gordon William Hall (Royal Flying Corps)
Sergeant Sidney Francis Hanchett (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Ernest Samuel William Hatch (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Friedrich Heilmann (German Air Force)
Sergeant Stanley Godfrey Hill (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftman R C Hook (Royal Navy)
Flying Officer Wallace James Horne (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftman Herbert Howes (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant John Ernest Jackson (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Warrant Officer George William Arthur Jessett (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Robert George Ephraim Kater (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Second Lieutenant Milton Elroy Kidder (Royal Flying Corps)
Flying Officer Kenneth Malcolm Laird (Royal Air Force)
Air Mechanic 2nd Class William Emery Laws (Royal Flying Corps)
Sergeant Philip Maurice Lay (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Lieutenant Robin Le Brasseur (Royal Flying Corps)
Flight Sergeant James Edward Lemon (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Second Lieutenant Myer Joseph Levine (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Marrison (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Corporal Dennis Ormond George Matthews (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Vincent Maxted (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Plutonowy Leon Nazarkiewicz (Polish Air Force)
Sergeant Ernest Ivo Nightingale (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant William James North (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Leroy Joseph O'Connor (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Jack Leonard Frederick Ottaway (Royal Air Force)
Albert Otterbach (German Air Force)
Flying Officer Robert Victor Paul (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
2nd Lieutenant Joseph Leo Philips (Royal Flying Corps)
Flying Officer Frank Joseph Plant (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Royal Potter (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftman J Raymond (Royal Air Force)
Plutonowy Henryk Sakowicz (Polish Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Irving Louis Sanitsky (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Pilot Officer Arthur Mitchell Saunders (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant John Henry Sharpe (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant James Pierson Shaw (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant John Edward Sheridan (Royal Australian Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class John Walter Sidell (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Josef Simon (German Air Force)
Corporal Herbert Edward George Smith (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Alan George Snelling (Royal Air Force)
Plutonowy Kazimierz Jan Socha (Polish Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class Frank Solomon (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Matthias Speuser (German Air Force)
Kapral Zbigniew Mieczysław Stasiak (Polish Air Force)
Pilot Officer Alan Mills Stewart (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Plutonowy Konrad Edward Kazimierz Szutka (Polish Air Force)
Aircraftwoman 2nd Class Betty Marion Taylor (Women's Auxiliary Air Force)
Pilot Officer David Carl Taylor (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Thomas James Thurling (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Plutonowy Aleksander Trzciński (Polish Air Force)
Warrant Officer D A J Turner (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Leslie James Gordon Wakefield (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer William Ross Watson (Royal Air Force)
Air Mechanic 2nd Class Joseph White (Royal Air Force)
Lieutenant Patrick Dalrymple Willes (Royal Air Force)
Starszy Sierżant Tadeusz Woźniak (Polish Air Force)
Air Mechanic 3rd Class Frank Young (Royal Air Force)
Starszy Szeregowiec Eugenia Zagajewska (Polish Air Force)
MEMORIAL SITE : Norwich History Mural
Hi-Tec House / Wensum Lodge
MEMORIAL SITE : Norwich Union Building
HISTORIC RECORD
There was a plaque inside this building referencing the gift of a Spitfire to the Royal Air Force in 1941, from the people of Norwich Union. The plaque is believed to be lost. If anyone knows of its whereabouts, please get in touch.
MEMORIAL SITE : Norwich Union Spitfire
The Spitfire that Norwich Union gifted to the RAF was known as 'NUFLIER' and there is a replica of this on display at the Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton, Suffolk.
MEMORIAL SITE : Pre-Conquest Church of St Michael at Thorn Plaque
MEMORIAL SITE : Rosary Cemetery
Buried and Remembered in this Cemetery are:
Air Mechanic 1st Class Frank George Brighty (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Kenneth George Ewing (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Eddie Fitzgerald (Royal Air Force)
Private George Jeremiah Garrod (Bedfordshire Regiment) (Victim of an Air Raid)
Flying Officer Maurice Ivan Fran Green (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Basil Jack Hogg (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Corporal Gordon William Egbert Jacobs (Royal Air Force)
Master Sergeant Joseph Medeiros (United States Army Air Force)
Cyril Robert, Gladys Patricia & Zena Mary Raven (Victims of a Baedecker Raid)
Second Lieutenant W N Miles (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Henry John Snelling (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Air Mechanic 1st Class Frank George Brighty (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Kenneth George Ewing (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Eddie Fitzgerald (Royal Air Force)
Private George Jeremiah Garrod (Bedfordshire Regiment) (Victim of an Air Raid)
Flying Officer Maurice Ivan Fran Green (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Basil Jack Hogg (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Corporal Gordon William Egbert Jacobs (Royal Air Force)
Master Sergeant Joseph Medeiros (United States Army Air Force)
Cyril Robert, Gladys Patricia & Zena Mary Raven (Victims of a Baedecker Raid)
Second Lieutenant W N Miles (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Henry John Snelling (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
MEMORIAL SITE : Scholars Court
HISTORIC RECORD
At Scholars Court, Oak Street, Norwich it was reported in Huby Fairhead's book, Aeronautical Memorials of Norfolk, that there was an 18inch square historic wartime place located in the inner courtyard. The plaque is inscribed '1942 Blitz' with Sir Winston Churchill's V for Victory sign. I visited on 26 November 2016 and could find no trace of this plaque, here is a photo of Scholars Court for the record.
MEMORIAL SITE : Second World War Memorial Plaque
Norwich Railway Station
MEMORIAL SITE : The Bell Hotel
The Bell Hotel, Norwich
MEMORIAL SITE : The Marsh Harrier
HISTORIC RECORD
A140, Harford, Norwich
MEMORIAL SITE : Vernon Castle Memorial Plaque
The Nelson Hotel, Norwich
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS : The Forum
MUSEUMS IN NORWICH
MUSEUM SITE : The Bridewell Museum
