Bedfield
BEDFIELD: Military Landing Ground
Military user: RFC (Royal Flying Corps) / RAF (Royal Air Force)
51 [Home Defence] Sqdn (Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2, B.E.12, later Avro 504K)
75 [Home Defence] Sqdn (Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c, B.E.2e, later F.E.2b)
Location: A real ‘back of beyond’ site this one. In/near Bedfield village about 2 to 2.5nm N of the A1120 roughly 14nm NNE of Ipswich, 10nm SE of Diss and also 10nm WNW of Saxmundham
Period of operation: 1916 to 1919
Site area: 38 acres 457 x 274
NOTES: I rwonder what the life-style of all those involved must have been like in those relatively far-off days during WW1 at a remote airfield such as this?
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