Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Pillar / Column
- District
- Allerdale
- Town
- Silloth
- County
- Cumbria
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 27th November 2011
Attended by: Kenneth P. Bannerman, ABCT Director General
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 66786
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Current location
Silloth Airfield
Just inside the modern main entrance
at the road junction (not the old guardhouse entrance).
Silloth
Allerdale
Cumbria
CA7 4PR
England
OS Grid Ref: NY12019 53624
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Square grey granite obelisk of the standard Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust type.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF/SILLOTH AIRFIELD/OPENED 05.06.1939/CLOSED 31.12.1960/DEDICATED TO ALL UNITS/AND PERSONNEL BASED HERE/AIRFIELDS OF BRITAIN/CONSERVATION TRUST/ WWW.ACBT.ORG.UK/UNVEILED BY KENNETH P. BANNERMAN/DIRECTOR GENERAL ABCT/27.11.2011
- 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
- Memorial
Measurements: depth 605mm, height 1135mm, width 605mm
Materials: Granite
- 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 - Sponsorship
- Public
Details: Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust- money raised through donations - Responsibility
- Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust
- Reference
- www.abct.org.uk
- Cumbria Magazine page 69 dated July 2012
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