Moordown: the Halifax Memorial
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Moordown: the Halifax Memorial
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 11 Nov 2012
Pictured on Remembrance Sunday, 11 November 2012, the Moordown Halifax Memorial was unveiled on 10 July 2011 and stands on the corner of the main Wimborne Road and Meadow Court Close. It is inscribed: In memory of the two local residents and seven aircrew who lost their lives in the cause of freedom when RAF Halifax bomber JP 137 crashed at this location on 21st March 1944. Mrs Dorothea Bennett, Flat 9 Meadow Court Mr Percy F. Chislett, 1027 Wimborne Road Sgt. Denis R. Evans, Pilot, RAFVR Sgt. Henry W. Roberts, Nav., RAFVR F/O Stanley A. Appleton, B/A, RAFVR Sgt. George A. Alexander, W/Op., RAFVR Sgt. Stanley F. Gent, F/E, RAFVR Sgt. Kenneth Green, A/G, RAFVR Sgt. Reginald R. McGREGOR, A/G, RCAF LEST WE FORGET Organised by the Moordown 2010 Committee as a contribution to the bicentenary of Bournemouth Meadow Court is the block of flats immediately behind the memorial (Image), while 1027 Wimborne Road would have been on the opposite corner. An excecllent account of the event in 1944 can be found on the Winton Forum website here: http://www.wintonforum.co.uk/halifax.html
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