Waterbeach

Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire

Waterbeach / Waterbeach Barracks

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11 January 1941
September 1974
Disused / Development
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22 March 2025
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AIRFIELD SITE : Aerial Views of RAF Waterbeach Airfield

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Dispersals

AIRFIELD SITE : Barrack Block

AIRFIELD SITE : Bicycle Shed

AIRFIELD SITE : Blast Wall Protected Fighter Pen

AIRFIELD SITE : Fighter Command Type Central Armoury

AIRFIELD SITE : Golf Glub

AIRFIELD SITE : Gymnasium

AIRFIELD SITE : Ident Letters

AIRFIELD SITE : Latrine Block

AIRFIELD SITE : Rubb Hangar

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 05/23

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 05/23 (Gravel)

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 10/28

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 16/34

AIRFIELD SITE : Signal Square

AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiways

AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown

BUILDING 2 : Squash Courts

BUILDING 3 : Grocery & Local Produce Store

BUILDING 4 : Guard Room

BUILDING 7 : Officers Mess

BUILDING 11 : Ambulance Garage & Mortuary

BUILDING 13 : Station Sick Quarters

BUILDING 14 : Station Sick Quarters Annexe

BUILDING 16 : Station Headquarters & Operations Block

BUILDING 17 : Speech Broadcasting Building

BUILDING 29 : Sergeants Mess & Quarters

BUILDING 34 : Gas Chamber & Practice Bomb Store

BUILDING 43 : Hangar / Type J Aircraft Shed

BUILDING 44 : Hangar / Type T2 Aircraft Shed

BUILDING 50 : Main Workshops

BUILDING 55 & 56 : Crew Locker & Drying Rooms

BUILDING 60 : Gun Turret Instructional Building & Free Gunnery Trainer

BUILDING 63 : Armoury, Photographic Block & AML Bombing Teacher

BUILDING 64 : Latrine Block

BUILDING 66 : Lubricant & Inflammables Store

BUILDING 67 : Parachute Store

BUILDING 68 : Dinghy Store

BUILDING 69 : Compressor House

BUILDING 70 : A.M.D.W Store

BUILDING 71 : Central Heating Station

BUILDING 72 : Stores

BUILDING 73 : Stores

BUILDING 76 : Works Services Building & Water Tower

BUILDING 79 : Barrack Block

BUILDING 81 : Barrack Block

BUILDING 82 : Barrack Block

BUILDING 92 : Decontamination Block

BUILDING 98 : Dining Room & Institute

BUILDING 99 : Ration Store

BUILDING 101 : Link Trainer Building

BUILDING 102 : Synthetic Navigation Training Building

BUILDING 103 : MT Sheds & Yard

BUILDING 112 : MT Shed Detached Bay

BUILDING 115 : Main Stores

BUILDING 121 : Fire Tender & Floodlight Trailer Shelter

BUILDING 122 : Control Tower / Watch Office with Met Section

BUILDING 126 : Night Flying Equipment Store

BUILDING 135 : Hangar / Type J Aircraft Shed

BUILDING 136 : Hangar / Type T2 Aircraft Shed

BUILDING 137 : Hangar / Type T2 Aircraft Shed

BUILDING 138 : Hangar / Type B1 Aircraft Shed

BUILDING 220 : S.A.A Stores

BUILDING 221 : S.A.A Stores

GATE GUARD : Hawker Hunter F.2 (WN904)

This aircraft moved to the Sywell Aviation Museum on 2 August 2012 where it has undergone further restoration and is now on display.

MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St John the Evangelist

MEMORIAL SITE : Waterbeach Cemetery

Buried in Waterbeach Cemetery are:
Leading Aircraftman Derek Adams (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant George Ian Anderson Baldwin (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Robert Peter Benfield (Royal Air Force)
Senior Aircraftman Terence Stewart Benigan (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Charles William Bullen (Royal Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant David Athol Caris (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant John Darbyshire (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
James Derek Dunford
Pilot Officer Gordon Scott Eccles (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Corporal Charles Percy Eva (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Kenneth John Fordham (Royal Air Force)
Warrant Officer Frank Charles Hewitt (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Kenneth Thomas George Jones (Royal Air Force)
Junior Technician Ronald Kerr (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Dudley Harold Kyte (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant John James O'Brien (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Terence O'Hare (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Robin Pavey (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Ernest Harry Prior (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Keith Howard Naughton Rumbo (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Gerald Harry Savoy (Royal Air Force)
Pilot 2nd Class Peter James Street (Royal Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant George Vladimir Svehla (Royal Air Force)
Squadron Leader John Harold Whislaw Yeats (Royal Air Force)