Ipswich, Suffolk

Ipswich  /  Nacton  /  Ravenswood
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AIRFIELD SITE (IPSWICH AIRPORT)

AIRFIELD SITE : Aerial View of Ipswich Airport

AIRFIELD SITE : Control Tower, Clubhouse and Passenger Terminal

AIRFIELD SITE : Pickett Hamilton Fort

LOCATED AT : ​52.02838241519427, 1.197959607346427​
EDOFBID : ​e01496

AIRFIELD SITE : Pickett Hamilton Fort

LOCATED AT : ​52.024197, 1.190020
EDOFBID : ​e01497

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 08/26

AIRFIELD SITE : Type FW3/22 Pillbox

LOCATED AT : ​52.025532, 1.200459
EDOFBID : ​e03306

AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 01

AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 02

AIRFIELD SITE : Unknown 03

AIRFIELD SITE (IPSWICH HOSPITAL)

AIRFIELD SITE : Ipswich Hospital Helipad

MEMORIALS AT IPSWICH

MEMORIAL SITE : Aviation Related Road Names

​Bader Close
Campbell Road
Cheshire Close
Cobham Road
Cody Road
​Cranwell Crescent
Demoiselle Crescent
​​Edith Cook Way
​Firefly Way
​Garland Close
​Gibson Close
Halton Crescent
​Hannah Crescent
​Harrier Close
​Hening Avenue
​Hilton Road
​Hunter Road
Hurricane Place
Lindbergh Road
Lysander Drive
Malcolm Road
Martinet Green
Nicholson Close
Reid Close
Spitfire Close
Uxbridge Crescent
Witney Close
Wright Road
​Wyvern Road
​Named after Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader (Royal Air Force).
Donald Edward Garland VC (Royal Air Force).
​Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire VC (Royal Air Force).
​Named after Sir Alan Cobham, an aviation pioneer.
Named after Samuel Cody, an aviation pioneer.​
​Named after RAF Crranwell.
​Named after an early french aircraft.
​Early British parachutist, balloonist, and aviator, recognised as Britain's first female pilot.
Named after the Fairey Firefly aircraft.
​Donald Edward Garland VC (Royal Air Force).
​Guy Penrose Gibson VC (Royal Air Force).
Named after RAF Halton.
John Hannah VC (Royal Air Force).
Named after the Harrier jet aircraft.
Named after Robert Hening MBE, one of the architects who designed the airport terminal building.
​Connection not known.
Named after the Hunter jet aircraft.
Named after an aircraft type based at RAF Ipswich in WW2.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, American Aviation Pioneer.
Named after the Lysander aircraft.
Hugh Gordon Malcolm VC (Royal Air Force).
Named after the Martinet aircraft.
Eric James Brindley Nicolson VC (Royal Air Force), please note the road name is spelt incorrectly.
William Reid VC (Royal Air Force).
Named after an aircraft type based at RAF Ipswich in WW2.
Named after RAF Uxbridge.
Named after the Witney aircraft.
​Named after Orville and Wilbur Wright, early aviation pioneers.
Named after the Westland Wyvern aircraft.

MEMORIAL SITE : Air Force Pilots Memorial Oak Tree

Christchurch Park, Ipswich

MEMORIAL SITE : Church of St Mary at the Elms

MEMORIAL SITE : Edith Maud Cook Plaque

Fore Street, Ipswich

MEMORIAL SITE : Formation Sculpture

MEMORIAL SITE : Handstanding Sculpture

MEMORIAL SITE : Ipswich Crematorium

Buried and Remembered at this Crematorium are:
Pilot Officer Jack Raymond Cresswell (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer John Philip Halestrap (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftwoman Ruth Elizabeth Irving (Womans Auxiliary Air Force)
Flying Officer Francis William Knowles (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Corporal Henry Philip Mills (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftman Royston Clifford Oulson (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Francis Edensor Richardson (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Arthur Frederick Saunders VC (Royal Anglian Regiment)
Warrant Officer James Victor Saunders (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman John Frederick Sharples (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Lieutenant John David Thorogood (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)

MEMORIAL SITE : Ipswich New Cemetery

Buried and Remembered in this Cemetery are: 
Sergeant David Hart Ayres (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Corporal Albert James Biles​ (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Geoffrey Crisp Boar (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Arthur Richard Brandon (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Marvin Kitchener Brown (Royal Air Force)
Flying Officer Eric Frank Chatterton (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftman Jack Gordon Chittock (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Crane​ (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Newell N Emsden (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Arthur Stanley Fairs (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
​Air Mechanic 1st Class Edgar William Gallant (Fleet Air Arm)
Sergeant John William Gillings (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Jack Gooding (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftman Donald Charles Goymer (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Lieutenant George Grant-Govan (Royal Air Force)
​Stanley Frank Green (Parachute Regiment)
Leading Aircraftman Bernard Arthur Haines (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
​Flight Sergeant James Frederick Halward (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Noel Frederick Harding (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Frederick Francis Harper (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
​Flight Sergeant Cecil E Higgins (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Frederick Alexander Higgins (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Wing Commander Edward Goodwin Hilton (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Kenneth Le Roy Holder (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer John George Howell (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Kenneth Napier Hudgell (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Lieutenant Norman Hugh Jenkins (Royal Air Force)
Aircraft 1st Class Leslie Charles Kell (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Eric Geoffrey Kitching (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer David Cooper Leary (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Philip Arthur Layen Lowe (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
​Flying Officer George Montgomerie Marshall (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Sergeant Thomas Joseph Leonard McEnery (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant John Draper McKenzie (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Percy John Morley (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Donald William Munson (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Edward William Neville (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer His Highness Prince Alexander Ololensky (Royal Auxiliary Air Force)
Pilot Officer William Ronald Phillips (Royal Australian Air Force)
Sergeant William Frank Porter (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Ronald Henry Ramsey (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Roy Philip Richardson (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Aircraftman 1st Class Reginald Arthur Charles Rogers (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer John Frank Saward (Royal Air Force)
John Stanford Seaman (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Eric Edward Sheppard (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Aircraftman 2nd Class John Charles Sheppard (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
​Wing Commander Percy Clark Sherren (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Donald Alexander Sinclair (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flying Officer Arthur William Smith (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class G P Smurthwaith (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Kenneth William Squirrell (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
​Warrant Officer William Squirrell (Royal Air Force)
Flight Lieutenant Hugh Norman Tamblyn (Royal Air Force)
Aicraftman 1st Class Douglas Treadwell (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer Pieter Robert Maria Van Der Heijden (Royal Air Force)
Squadron Leader John Pieter Maria Van Der Heijden (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Peter Charles Vickery (Royal Air Force)
Pilot Officer William Anthony Ward (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Wilfred Cecil Warne (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Rudolph Francis West (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur John Whittaker (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class William George Stanley Wolton (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)

MEMORIAL SITE : Ipswich Old Cemetery

Buried and Remembered in this Cemetery are: 
Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Harold Andrews (Royal Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Sydney Ashby (Royal Flying Corps)
Aircraftman 1st Class Herbert Walter Beckett (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftman Robert Olaf Strongman Beckwith (Royal Air Force)
Lieutenant C W Blain (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant John Frederick Boon (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Lawrence Milbert Bowen (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Donald Michelle Bozer (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Derek Guy Brock (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Arthur Edward Brown (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Patrick Spencer Brown (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant John Lewis Carter (Royal Air Force)
Second Lieutenant J F Cheesman (Royal Flying Corps)
Sergeant Robert John Clarke (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Lieutenant Geoffrey Edgar Cushing (Royal Flying Corps)
Sergeant Reginald Frank Damant​ (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Lieutenant Samuel Hollis Alfred D'Arcy (Royal Air Force)
Flight Cadet Francis George Denny (Royal Air Force)
Corporal Cyril George Dulgarn (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant William Ellenor (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Lieutenant Stewart Nicholson Evans (Royal Flying Corps)
Petty Officer William George Fensom (Royal Naval Air Service)
Second Lieutenant William George Finbow (Royal Air Force)
Clerk 3rd Class Herbert William Finch (Royal Air Force)
Aircraftman 1st Class Dennis Jeffery Fisk (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
​Officer Cadet Royce Lee Fosdike (Parachute Regiment)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald Sydney Foulger (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftman Walter Frederick Fowles (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant William Patrick Joseph Gregory-Coleman (Royal Australian Air Force)
Flight Sergeant FrederickRex Higgott (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Flight Sergeant Robert Kelly (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Harry Key (Royal Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman William Maguire (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Air Mechanic 2nd Class Arthur Edward Meadows (Royal Flying Corps)
Flight Sergeant Seward Terry Modeland (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Thomas Fraser Monroe (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Herbert Walter Newson (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Pilot Officer Jackson Corwin Nixon (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Leading Aircraftman Douglas Ernest Paul (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Sergeant Lionel Frederick Perry (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Leading Aircraftwoman Evelyn Violet Plumb (Women's Auxiliary Air Force)
Sergeant Charles Frank Prentice (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flight Sergeant Terence Emile Procurer​ (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Harry Footer Rampley (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Barney Andrew Rogers (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Air Mechanic 2nd Class Wilfred Herbert Smith (Royal Flying Corps)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman Frederick Southgate (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Sergeant Jack Forden Stanley (Royal New Zealand Air Force)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Aubrey George Taylor (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Flying Officer Walter McNaught Thompson (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Pilot Officer Cyril James Todd (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Aircraftman 1st Class Ralph Kenneth Warren (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Lieutenant G S Wilkin (Royal Air Force)
Sergeant Roy Frederick Arthur Yallop​ (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)​

MEMORIAL SITE : Prince Alexander Obolensky Memorial

St Nicholas Street, Ipswich

MEMORIAL SITE : Propellor Sculpture

MEMORIAL SITE : Sir Douglas Bader Spitfire Sculpture

MEMORIAL SITE : Sqn Ldr Anthony Roscoe Towne Beddow Memorial

Myrtle Road, Ipswich

MEMORIAL SITE : Stars & Stripes from the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing

Ipswich Hospital

MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS : Boulton & Paul Hangar​

This hangar was one of the original Ipswich Airport hangars, after closure of the airfield and prior to the redevelopment of the site, the hangar was relocated to the Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum at Flixton.

MISCELLANEOUS : Ipswich Airport Plaques and Signs

These are all on display at either the Ipswich Transport Museum or the Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum.

MISCELLANEOUS : Ipswich Town Sign

MISCELLANEOUS : Railings with Propellor