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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Tendring
- Town
- Clacton On Sea
- County
- Essex
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 13th January 1995
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 22928
Current location
The Esplanade
Clacton On Sea
Tendring
Essex
England
OS Grid Ref: TM 180 150
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- BLACK MARBLE TABLET MOUNTED ON BRICK BASE. WHITE LETTERING. FURTHER PLAQUE AT FRONT OF BASE,
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF/ FLIGHT OFFICER RAYMOND E. KING/ OF THE 479TH FIGHTER GROUP U.S. 8TH AIR FORCE/ WHOSE AIRCRAFT CRASHED INTO THE SEA/ NEAR THIS SPOT ON 13TH JANUARY 1945/ AFTER DEVELOPING ENGINE TROUBLE./ F/O KING WAS RETURNING TO BASE/ AFTER A COMBAT MISSION AND NEVER/ SURVIVED HIS ORDEAL IN THE/ BITTERLY COLD SEA./ THIS PLAQUE WAS UNVEILED BY THE/ PILOT'S COUSIN MR. ALVIN J. STUART/ OF WILDWOOD, FLORIDA U.S.A./ 13TH JANUARY 1995
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 1
Exact count: no
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,place of death,forename,manner of death,relationships
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Second World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Black
- Second World War memorial
- 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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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