Crash Site Monuments?

Ritter von Fear · 18 April 2005, 11:19 AM

I am curious to know if there are any monuments to where pilots fell or plaques that mark out their crash site. I heard that

Albert Ball has a monument where he died and many others are buried where they fell (known and unknown –

Werner Voss for example).

Thank you for any information

snowbird · 18 April 2005, 09:06 PM

MvR's crash site is marked at the side of the road, at the field where he went down. The same type of marker plaques are also at Bertangles, Fricourt, and at Cappy
I hope the pic comes through alright

Tony

snafu · 19 April 2005, 09:55 AM

There is a monument near Stonehenge at what is now known as Airman's Corner.
In July 1912 Captain E.B. Loraine and Staff Sergeant R.H.V. Wilson lost their lives in a Nieuport monoplane which crashed at this site. A stone cross was erected there to their memory (grid ref: SU098429).

Cheers
Dominic

stephen · 21 April 2005, 07:41 AM

There is a roadside monument to

Frank Luke Jr. in Murvaux, France, a few hundred yards from the site of his death.

frontflieger · 21 April 2005, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by snowbird

MvR's crash site is marked at the side of the road

I'd like to know, who is *responsible* for this/ these monument(s)? 10 years ago - when I made a bicyle trip there - there was nothing to be seen.

thorsten

snowbird · 21 April 2005, 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frontflieger

I'd like to know, who is *responsible* for this/ these monument(s)? 10 years ago - when I made a bicyle trip there - there was nothing to be seen.

thorsten

As I recall, the people responsible are the local tourism board in Picardy (the Somme) or Amiens

Must have been a response to many coming over to France and not finding such things.

The Cappy aerodrome marker however is in the wrong place according to 'Airfields and Airmen'. It should be another field to the south

Tony

Executioner128 · 26 April 2005, 06:35 AM

Georges Guynemer, not an unfamous 53-kill ace, although his body/plane were never found (by the way how the hell is that possible?

) has a statue in Poelkapelle, Belgium (West Flanders) I have got a picture of it, and will upload it as soon as possible and post the link here !

Executioner128 · 26 April 2005, 06:42 AM

Index of /HERR_BAUS

I have uploaded all my grave/statue jpegsn
here you go guys, check out all the jpegs.

statues/graves from:

Rudolf Berthold

Frank Luke

Douglas Campbell

Manfred Von Richthofen

Ernst Udet

Hans-Joachim Buddecke

Raoul Lufbery

Willy Coppens

frontflieger · 26 April 2005, 08:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Executioner128

Index of /HERR_BAUS

I have uploaded all my grave/statue jpegsn
here you go guys, check out all the jpegs.

... It would be polite I you would add the source of "your" images on "your" website... e. g. in case they are taken from other homepages

Best regards
Frontflieger - die Soldaten der Deutschen Fliegertruppe 1914 - 1918

Executioner128 · 26 April 2005, 08:42 AM

Dear Frontflieger

please do not misunderstand the "my" in my text. I do not consider them as "mine" in the way that I produced them. I just want to share all those beautiful photos with other interested people on this forum. I've been having this photos for a long time, so I really can't remember which site they are from, therefore, it would be exhausting and useless work to mention any sites, though I am very grateful to those people who make these precious archives available to the public.