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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Trophy / Relic
- District
- Colchester
- Town
- Langham
- County
- Essex
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 1992
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 45596
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Current location
To the north east of Colchester
Former Boxted Airfield
Off The A12
Langham
Colchester
Essex
CO4 5NN
England
OS Grid Ref: TM 018 312
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Three runway lights surrounding an angled plinth bearing two plaques with inscription. Plinth flanked by flagpole on each side.
- Inscription
- (Inscription unknown.)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Relic
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Unknown - Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brick - Flagpole
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Unknown - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Unknown
- Relic
- 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
- Boxted Airfield War Memorial
- WMO ID: 241829
- Condition: Good [last updated on 04-12-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2007: Land purchased by Langham Parish Council. The memorial was reconstructed. New memorial incorporates lights but with new plinth. (Our ref. 63392)
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- ESSEX AIRFIELDS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR by SMITH, G 84/ 1996 Source: Image Library
- Other website www.354thpmfg.com/Boxted_Airfield.html
- Other website www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/1872253.langham_monument_to_airmen_set_for_upgrade/
- Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Boxted
- Our website 63392 www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.63392/fromUkniwmSearch/1
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