Edmonton 1938 Air Disaster Memorial
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Edmonton 1938 Air Disaster Memorial
Image: © John Kingdon Taken: 15 Aug 2023
The memorial in Edmonton Cemetery to those who died in the aircraft crash is looking a little neglected with the inscriptions now hard to read. On the 4th September 1938 a young RAF pilot crashed his plane on to a street of housing in Edmonton, Middlesex (now the London Borough of Enfield) killing himself and twelve civilians. Some saw this as a precursor to the coming war in the air when it was feared that "the bomber will always get through". George Orwell left England for Morocco later that month to write his novel 'Coming Up For Air' which features an RAF plane accidentally bombing an English town. He may have had the Edmonton Air Disaster in mind.
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