Broadway flying sites
Note: This map only shows the location of Broadway within the UK.
BROADWAY see THE LYGON ARMS
BROADWAY see also FISH HILL
BROADWAY TOWER: WW2 crash site
See also my article on Gate Guardians, museums and memorials.
NOTES: On a touring holiday in September 2013 my wife and I decided to visit Broadway Tower, a folly built on top of the escarpment above Broadway village. Making our way to the tower we noticed a memorial.
The plaque simply stated, with a side drawing of the Armstrong-Whitworth Whitley TY-S:
R.A.F. BOMBER CRASH
AT THIS LOCATION ON THE 2ND JUNE 1943, 1415 HRS, A.W. WHITLEY Z6639, OF No. 24 O.T.U. R.A.F. HONEYBOURNE, WORCS. CRASHED WHILE ON OPERATIONAL TRAINING
IN MEMORY OF
FLT/SGT H.G. HAGEN PILOT R.C.A.F.
SGT R.S. PHILLIPS NAV R.A.F.
FLT/SGT D.H. KELLY B.A. R.C.A.F
SGT D.A. MARRIOTT W.A.G. R.A.F. (V.R.)
SGT G.E. EKINS A.G. R.A.F. (V.R.)
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
As stated elsewhere in this ‘Guide’ the attrition rate of aircrew undertaking training throughout WW2 was quite appalling. A sizeable proportion meeting their death before going on operations. Have the reasons for this ever been fully investigated and explained? Many thousands of aircrew were involved in fatal ‘accidents’ during training.
MEMORIALS
It is of course so very nice indeed to see that so many people, often in groups etc, have taken the trouble to erect individual memorials such as this. But, as mentioned elsewhere, I do think it a matter of national disgrace that a suitable memorial in a prominent place has not been erected to those who died in training.
Their sacrifice was no less than those who died on operations against the enemy.
SOMETHING TO BEAR IN MIND
Against this we must remember that a memorial to RAF Bomber Command operational aircrews in WW2 was not established until June 2012 in central London.
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