Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cairn
- District
- Caithness
- Town
- between Thurso and Latheron
- County
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 29 August 1992
Attended by: Right Honourable Viscount Thurso JP - Dedicated
Date: 29th August 1992
Attended by: Rev. Kenneth Warner - Show More (1)
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 6050
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Current location
South of Halsary
about 3 miles south of Mybster Crossroads
Causeymire Burn
Lay-by on West side of A9
between Thurso and Latheron
Caithness
Highland
KW1 5XR
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: ND 17326 48528
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Low cemented cairn with memorial tablet. B-17 Z9A of 519 Squadron flew into ground returning from a meteorology flight in bad weather on 1 February 1945.
- Inscription
- (squadron badge) / DEDICATED TO / THE MEMORY OF / (names) / Who were killed or fatally injured on the 1st February 1945, when / their Fortress aircraft, 29-A, crashed nearby on their return from a weather reconnaissance sortie over the Norwegian Sea. / WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM AND THEIR COMRADES OF / 519 MET RECCE. SQUADRON, ROYAL AIR FORCE, WICK. / "who flew beyond the storms - into the sunset"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Beatson, Alexander Purdie
Day, Kenneth Anthony Ian
Panzer, Geoffrey Arthur Francis
Payne, William Henry
Pressley, D A
Wood, E A
See details for all 6 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 6
Served and returned: 0
Died: 6
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank, initials, surname
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass - Cairn
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Plaque
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Private
- Reference
- www.aircrashsites-scotland.co.uk/boeing_b-17e_loch-rangag.htm
- Bad a’ Cheò Wind Farm Archaeology and Cultural Heritage her.highland.gov.uk/api/LibraryLinkWebServiceProxy/FetchResource/290044/full_290044.pdf Clarification Report
- Bad a’ Cheò Wind Farm ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT her.highland.gov.uk/api/LibraryLinkWebServiceProxy/FetchResource/290043/full_290043.pdf VOLUME 2 (OF 4): MAIN TEXT
- Aberdeen Press and Journal - Monday 31 August 1992 Nimrod joins tribute to air crash victims
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