Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Argyll And Bute
- Town
- Isle of Tiree
- County
- Strathclyde
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 16 August 2014
Attended by: Kenneth Organ-son of the captain of Aircraft LL186, relatives of the crews and their families, representatives from their home nations, senior military personnel, dignitaries from near and far, and many Tiree residents
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 70741
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Current location
In front of the airport passenger terminal.
Tiree Airport
Isle of Tiree
Argyll And Bute
Strathclyde
PA77 6UW
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NL 99853 44712
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Metal plaque on granite base
- Inscription
- In memory of two Second World War Coastal Command aircrews who tragically lost their lives when/ their Handley Page Halifax aircraft collided over this airfield on Wednesday 16th August 1944/ [names]/ This memorial was unveiled by Kenneth Organ on 16th August 2014
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bradley, Frank
Cresswell, Ronald Victor
Graham, William Arthur
Marshall, Arthur
Milne, Philip Heslop
Oates, Kenneth
Organ, Kenneth William
Peterson, John Alexander
Regenstreif, Mortimer
Revilliod, Leonard
See details for all 16 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 16
Served and returned: 0
Died: 16
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename, rank, crew position, age, service, date of death, manner of death
Order of information: Aircraft, crew position, rank, surname
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Metal - Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite
- Plaque
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Life on Tiree report on ceremony lifeontiree.com/2014/08/17/tiree-remembers/
- fcafa.com/2014/08/26/raf-memorial-isle-of-tiree (for much more detail on the accident and the memorial)
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