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Tangmere, Sussex

Tangmere
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March 1918
16 October 1970
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Tangmere Military Aviation Museum

AIRFIELD SITE : Aerial Views of RAF Tangmere


AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Servicing Platform


AIRFIELD SITE : Blast Wall Protected Fighter Dispersal​ (Pair)


AIRFIELD SITE : Blast Wall Protected Fighter Dispersal​ (Pair)


AIRFIELD SITE : Blast Wall Protected Fighter Dispersal​ (Pair)


AIRFIELD SITE : Hangar 1


AIRFIELD SITE : Hangar 2


AIRFIELD SITE : Hangar 3


AIRFIELD SITE : Picket Hamilton Fort

LOCATED AT : 50.846395, -0.714760
EDOFBID : e01511

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 17/35


AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiways


AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown


BUILDING 18 : Institute


BUILDING 73a : Fuel Tanker Shed


BUILDING 73c : Fuel Tanker Shed


BUILDING 116 : Barrack Block


BUILDING 140 : Control Tower


MEMORIAL SITE : 145 Squadron Memorial Plaque


MEMORIAL SITE : Battle of Britain 80th Anniversary Plaque


MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Andrew


MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Andrew Churchyard

Buried & Remembered in this Churchyard are:
An Airman of the 1939-1945 War Buried 7 December 1940 (Royal Air Force)
An Unknown German Soldier
Pilot Officer Andrew Aitken (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Percy Clarence Anscombe (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer P Ashman-Smith (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Norman Dorrington Ashton (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Richard Ernest Austin (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Group Captain Richard Erskine Bain (Royal Air Force)
Squadron Leader Lionel Arthur Ballingall (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Clifford Barnaby Barton (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Pilot Officer Merton Vivian Baxter (Royal Air Force)
Walter Bickel (German Air Force)
Sergeant Ben Bingley (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Alexander Campbell Black (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Aircraftman 1st Class Leonard Bradburn (Royal Air Force)
Karl Wilhelm Brinkbaumer (German Navy / German Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant J H Buris (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Percival Ross-Frames Burton (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant John Reginald Gallimore Calvert (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Squadron Leader Cyril Henry Arthur Colman (Royal Air Force)
Senior Aircraftman S G Cornthwaite (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Stanley Coutts (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Josef Dietl (German Air Force)
Flying Officer Ivor Benison Difford (Royal Air Force)
Erich Doehring (German Air Force)
Air Commodore E M Donaldson (Royal Air Force)
​Flying Officer Alexander Charles Douglas (Royal Air Force)
Pilot officer Hugh Kendrick Arthur Drummond (Royal Air Force)
Squadron Leader Neville Duke (Royal Air Force)
Wing Commander Eric Raymond Dutt (Royal Air Force)
​Warrant Officer Leonard Alfred Frier (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Albert Edward Gainey (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman Reginald Gerrish (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Denis Charles Grocock (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Wing Commander H J L Hallowes (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Wilfred Arnold Harper (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer David Stewart Harrison (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Lieutenant R E Hart (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer T J Hartnoll (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Richard Owen Hellyer (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Ronald Oliver Hewlett (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant John Richard Hill (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant W M Hodge (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Charles Julius Holland (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Richard Charles Holman (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Squadron Leader Caesar Barraud Hull (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Richard Ralph Hutley (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Neviele Howard Jackson (Royal Air Force)
Wing Commander Roy W Jeary (Royal Air Force)
Senior Aircraftman F J Kerr (Royal Air Force)
Hans Kleemann (German Air Force)
Guenther Erich Ladwig (German Air Force)
Flying Officer Donald Millar Lake (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Hedley Eric Large (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Terry Le Dong (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Allan Lee (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Corporal Walter Harry Lewis (Royal Air Force)
Air Vice Marshall Charles George Lott (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer D W Lovell (Royal Air Force)
Wilhelm Mueller (German Air Force)
Radar Technician Richard Leigh Noyes (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Johannes Roelof Stephanus Oelofse (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Robert Edmund Patten (Royal Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant Harry Hamilton Peck (Royal Air Force)
​Eric John Reynolds (Royal Air Force)
Wilhelm Rimek (German Air Force)
​Otto Roeger (German Air Force)
Flying Officer C A Rotheram (Royal Air Force)
Chief Technician C H Rushby (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Wilton McBride Sage (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Alfons Scheuplein (German Air Force)
Hans Schlueter (German Air Force)
​Wing Commander J W C Simpson (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Philip Shaw Smith (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Smith (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Lieutenant Peter Speller (Royal Air Force)
​Sergeant Mervyn Herbert Sprague (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
August Wilhelm Strauch (German Air Force)
Pilot Officer Eustace Stanley Garrard Sweeting (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
​Chief Technician James Duncan Swinney (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Jeffery John Tanfield (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer William Erskine Snell Tanner (Royal Air Force)
​Flight Lieutenant Derek William Wainwright (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Aircraftman 2nd Class William Frederick George West (Royal Auxilliary Air Force)
Warrant Officer V A Willis (Royal Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant E G E Wingman (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Ernest Wragg (Royal Air Force)
​Sergeant R R Wynne (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Archibald Bruce Young​ (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)

MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Andrew Kneeler Cushions


MEMORIAL SITE : Halifax (HX181) Crash Memorial


MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Linguists Association Memorial Plaque


MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Tangmere Airmen Memorial


MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Tangmere Main Entrance Plaque


MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Tangmere Memorial Plaque


MEMORIAL SITE : RAF Tangmere Squadrons Memorial Plaque


MEMORIAL SITE : Sqn Ldr Caesar Barrand Hull Memorial Plaque​


MEMORIAL SITE : Sqn Ldr Neville Frederick Duke Memorial Plaque​


MEMORIAL SITE : Sqn Ldr W. F. Barrell Memorial Plaque​


MEMORIAL SITE : Tangmere Airfield Memorial


MEMORIAL SITE : Tangmere Memorial


MEMORIAL SITE : Tangmere Village Sign


MEMORIAL SITE : The Bader Arms

HISTORIC RECORD

MEMORIAL SITE : Wings for Victory Week Memorial Plaque​

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