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Silloth, Cumberland

Silloth
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5 June 1939
31 December 1960
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​Silloth Airfield Project

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Dispersal


BUILDING 1 : Wardens Office & Cycle Park


BUILDING 3 : Canteen


BUILDING 4 : Lubricant & Inflammables Store


BUILDING 5 : Water Tower & Works Services Buildings


BUILDING 6 : Central Heating Station


BUILDING 9 : Mechanical Transport Sheds & Yard


BUILDING 10 : Main Stores


BUILDING 12 : Hangar / Type 'D' Aircraft Shed


BUILDING 13 : Hangar / Type 'C' Aircraft Shed


BUILDING 14A : Latrine Block


BUILDING 15 : Articulated Trailer Shed


BUILDING 16 : Petrol Tanker Shed


BUILDING 17 : Hangar / Type 'D' Aircraft Shed


BUILDING 25 : Hangar / Type 'E' Aircraft Shed


BUILDING 26 : Hangar / Type 'E' Aircraft Shed


BUILDING 54 : Compressor House


BUILDING 57 : Hangar / Type 'C' Aircraft Shed


BUILDING 59 : Control Tower / Watch Office with Met Section


BUILDING 300 : Battle Headquarters

LOCATED AT : ​54.883261, -3.374165
EDOFBID : ​e01179

AIRFIELD SITE : Type FW3/22 Pillbox

LOCATED AT : 54.869087, -3.372275
EDOFBID : ​e03821

MEMORIAL SITE : ABCT Marker Stone


MEMORIAL SITE : Christ Church


MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Paul

Buried in this churchyard are:
​Cadet Nichol Godfrey Dixon (Royal Air Force)

MEMORIAL SITE : Silloth Causewayhead Cemetery

Buried in this cemetery are:
​Flight Sergeant James Anderson (Royal Canadian Air Force)
​Leading Aircraftman Albert Edward Austin (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
​Sergeant William Alfred Leslie Babington (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Sergeant Gerald Ian Dacres Backhouse (Royal Australian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Louis Joseph Raymond Bechard (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Leo Gerard Belanger
 (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Reginald Victor Walker Bellew (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Frederick John Bliss (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Bruce Oswald Bown (Royal Australian Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant Reginald Edwin Brice (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Henry Albert Briggs (Royal Air Force)
Pilot officer Douglas McIntosh Burgess (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant William John Calver (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Reginald Joseph Clarke (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Stanley Franklin Cleworth (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flying Officer Charles Thomas Dacombe (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Ernest Anthony Dempsey (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant George Edward Derbyshire (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Harold Dickinson (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot oFficer Thomas Robinette Godfrey (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Colin Alexander James Gordon (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Edward George Jenner (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flying Officer Leonard Thomas Kinchin (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Edwin Omer Knight (Royal Australian Air Force)
Plutonowy Antoni Kolowski (Polish Air Force)
Kapral Józef Krzysztoszek (Polish Air Force)
Flying Officer Oswald John Lander (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Louis Brian Eugene Larsen (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Richard Woffendale Lawton (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Owen Ernest Dudley Louden (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Sergeant Robert Gillespie Luke (Royal Australian Air Force)
Pilot Officer Alexander Over MacRae (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Kapral Brunen Makowski (Polish Air Force)
Plutonowy Eugeniusz Malicki (Polish Air Force)
Flying Officer Denis George Mann (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Robert Douglas McKenzie (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flying Officer Max Stanley McQualter (Royal Australian Air Force)
Sergeant Colin O'Donnell (Royal Australian Air Force)
Sergeant Earle Douglas Parrish (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Harold Puusepp (Royal Australian Air Force)
Pilot Officer Denis John Richardson (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Cyril Ring (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Leo Francis Ryan (Royal Australian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant William Bruce Sage (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flying Officer Theodore Sandberg (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flying Officer Colwyn William Reeves Sawyer (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Jack Sheldon (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Porucznik Ryszard Józef Strozak (Polish Air Force)
Sergeant John Thomas Sutherland (Royal Australian Air Force)
Sergeant Mervyn Charles Taylor (Royal Australian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant David Thomas (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer William Basil Cheale Thompson (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Bohumil Votruba (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Robert Ward (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Douglas John Wearne (Royal Australian Air Force)
Flying Officer William Denman Whatley (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Arthur Ernest Whitbourne (Royal Australian Air Force)
Sergeant Geoffrey Basil Temple Wymer (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Franklin Charles Zurbrigg (Royal Canadian Air Force)

MEMORIAL SITE : Lockheed Hudson Bomber


MISCELLANEOUS : RAFA Club Silloth

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