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Alton Barnes
Town or City: Alton Barnes
County: Wiltshire
Country: England
WMT Reference Number: WM3049
Value of grant: £105.00
Type of memorial: Non-Freestanding
Type of work: Conservation and repair
Grant scheme: Small Grants Scheme
Year: 2009
UKNIWM reference number: 23900
This memorial is a Crown Stone tablet with inscriptions, and is located above the entrance to an air raid shelter in a former airfield, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire.
In 2009 War Memorials Trust offered a grant of £105 towards conservation and repair works for the memorial. This included the loosening of moss and lichen with a wooden spatula, cleaning the stone with low pressure water and non-metallic brushes, and repainting the letters and emblems with enamel paint.
This memorial is dedicated to the former RAF Alton Barnes and the RAF personnel who were killed whilst training there. This memorial was dedicated on 18th September 1999, and the sculptor was Jim Winchcombe.
The inscription on the memorial reads:
This memorial on the only remaining air raid
shelter marks the site of RAF Alton Barnes,
which was used as an airfield for training
between 1939-45. C.F.S Upavon operated
here until 1941 when the site transferred to
No 29 E.F.T.S. Clyffe Pypard.
This memorial is 
dedicated to those who lost
their lives whilst training here:
P/O K.J. Holmes. DFC. RAF 18th June 1941
P/O A. Gibbons RAFVR 18th June 1941
Sgt. K.O. Bate RAFVR 18th June 1941
Sq. Ldr. W.B. Beale RAF 4th September1941
P/O G.H. Brown RAFVR 4th September 1941
“Sunward I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth...
...Put out my hand and touched the face of God.”
W.H.M.S.
Further information
War Memorials Trust reference WM3049
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: 23900
War Memorials Online 100255
If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org
