Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Tapestry / Needlepoint
- District
- Annandale And Eskdale
- Town
- Moffat
- County
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Maker
- DOBSONS AND M. BROWNE & CO (Manufacturer)
HARRY CROSS (Designer)
W HEROD (Draughtsman)
Mr W R Jackson (Draughtsman)
Alf Webster (Patternmaker) - Ceremony
- Presented
Date: 1946
Attended by:
- Presented
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 56968
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Current location
In alcove of residents' communal lounge
Dowding House RAFA Sheltered Housing Project.
Old Well Road
Moffat
Annandale And Eskdale
Dumfries And Galloway
DG10 9AP
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT 08612 05402
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Framed and glazed wall mounted lace panel of Egyptian Cotton depicting various scenes witnessed during the bombing of London. Depicts aircraft in battle and airmen parachuting; landmarks of London under attack; badges of Allied air forces; together with the names of the craftsmen who designed and created the panel along with Churchill's quote.
- Inscription
- THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN/ NEVER WAS SO MUCH OWED BY SO MANY TO SO FEW. CHURCHILL
- 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
- Tapestry / Needlepoint
Measurements: height 4572mm, width 1676mm
Materials: Lace
- Tapestry / Needlepoint
- Condition
- History
- 1988: Given to Dowding House by RAFA Created between 1942-1946. Presented to the Royal Air Force Association (not known where it was kept to this point or if work has been carried out on it.)
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- RAFA Dowding House
- Reference
- An Illustrated History of RAF Bentley Priory 36-38
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=6339
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