Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Stone of remembrance
- District
- East Staffordshire
- Town
- Hanbury
- County
- Staffordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), Second World War - civilians
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 25th November 1990
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 13566
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Current location
BESIDE THE FAULD CRATER
Hanbury
East Staffordshire
Staffordshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 183 278
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Rough hewn stone of remembrance with inscription on smoothed front face. Sited in a gravel surround.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES / IN THE FAULD EXPLOSION / 27th NOVEMBER 1944 THE FIRST EIGHTEEN PEOPLE NAMED HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE / AND THIS CRATER IS THEIR RESTING PLACE (names) WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Appleton, J. H.
Bailey, J. T.
Barker, E.
Beard, J.
Bell, J.
Bowring, F. C.
Brassington, J.
Campbell, F.
Carter, H.
Cartwright, F.
See details for all 70 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 11
Served and returned: 0
Died: 11
Exact count: yes
Information shown: known burial place, rank, initials, surname
Order of information: known burial place, rank, surname - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 59
Served and returned: 0
Died: 59
Exact count: yes
Information shown: known burial place, marital condition, initials, surname
Order of information: known burial place, surname, initials
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Stone of remembrance
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Sicilian
- Stone of remembrance
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- RAF Fauld Crater Memorial
- WMO ID: 240093
- Condition: Good [last updated on 03-07-2020]
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- Costs
Site: £2000
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Other
- Reference
- Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Fauld_explosion
- "After The Battle" magazine, Issue No 18, pages 35-40
- Staffordshire HER www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MST11531&resourceID=1010 Record Details MonUID: MST11531
- Sunday Telegraph, 27th November 1994, Review section pages 1-2, "The biggest bang"
- "Memorial Flight", the journal of the Lincolnshire Lancaster Association, Autumn 2000, "The Day A Village Blew Up"
- Guardian, 27th November 2004, page 10, "Village honours victims of 1944 big bang"
- Derby Daily Telegraph 14-15/26 November 2009
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