Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Pillar / Column
- District
- Cunninghame
- Town
- Largs
- County
- Strathclyde
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 2 October 2010
Attended by: Kenneth P Bannerman, Director General of ABCT
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 78092
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Current location
Largs was never a RAF base
it was seaplane terminal operated by Scottish Aviation Ltd.
Beside the Lifeboat Station
Seaward side of Greenock Road
south of junction with Barfields Road
Largs
Cunninghame
Strathclyde
KA30 8QL
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NS 20147 60067
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Square grey granite obelisk of the standard Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust type
- Inscription
- AIRFIELDS/OF BRITAIN/Conservation Trust/www.abct.org.uk/IN MEMORY OF/LARGS AIRFIELD/OPENED 18.09.1942/CLOSED 25.09.1945/DEDICATED TO ALL UNITS/AND PERSONNEL BASED HERE/UNVEILED BY/KENNETH P BANNERMAN/DIRECTOR GENERAL, ABCT/2.10.2010
- 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
- Pillar
Measurements: depth 605mm, height 1135mm, width 605mm
Materials: Granite
- Pillar
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Action Stations. Volume 7. by David J. Smith Patrick Stephens, Cambridge. ISBN 9780850595635
- www.abct.org.uk/airfields/airfield-finder/largs/
- Largs and the WW2 Catalina Flying Boats www.oldlargs.com/Catalina.html
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