207 SQUADRON ROYAL AIR FORCE HISTORY
RAF BOMBER COMMAND MEMORIAL DEDICATION 28 June 2012
Several thousand tickets were available to
attend the Dedication, with admission to the Memorial or
Salute (where the ceremony was shown on a screen) areas being
decided by Lottery.
The ceremony can be seen on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVnanoHzE3U
Salute Area: the gathering assembles: source Ray Williams
Salute Area: Harry Priestley (Flight Engineer 12/43-6/44) and
some of the D'Arcy Thompson family
(Judy - 3rd in row - and David - 6th - are Friend Members)
Salute Area: Fred Richardson DFC (Pilot 1/43-8/43) and his
son
Salute Area: Roy Hill (Wireless Operator 7/44-12/44, PoW)
& Mrs Hill
Salute Area: Tim Chamberlin, Friend Member and member of the
Langar Airfield Memorial Committee, with Mrs Chamberlin
Salute Area: Peter Sells
Peter died suddenly at the end of August, two months after
this photo was taken.
Ray & Jeff Williams - sons of Sergeant Haydn Davies RAFVR
- 207 Squadron, kia 18 October 1943 on Hannover,
who has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede
Memorial.
Ray is a Friend Member: source Ray Williams
Prince Charles chats to an RAAF veteran: source Ray Williams
Salute Area: Frank Haslam, Friend Member, website editor,
wearing his father's medals (Frank Haslam, Wireless Operator
4/44-6/44)
The BBMF Lancaster drops poppies over the gathering
The flypast by Tornadoes
Some of the figures in the memorial: source Ray Williams
source Ray Williams
Tom Dooley - Organiser of the Memorial Fund: source Ray
Williams
Frank Dell, last Chairman of the Royal Air Forces Escaping
Society - Mrs Diana Morgan, Escape Lines Memorial Society
committee member
Elizabeth Harrison MBE, last Secretary of the former Royal
Air Forces Escaping Society
and designer of the RAFES plaque that is in several major
churches around the world
images: Haslam, unless otherwise stated
page last updated 13 Sep 12