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Airman's Corner (England)

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    • found: Work cat.: Linford, N. Airman's Corner, Winterbourne Stoke, Wiltshire, 2009: summary (Airman's Corner road junction, Winterbourne Stoke, Wiltshire, site of new visitor centre for Stonehenge) p. 1 (memorial at Airman's Corner commemorates the site of the first fatal military aviation accident on 5 July 1912; site is immediately south of th A344 road)
    • found: Geograph Uk website, 9 June 2009: SU0942 page (Memorial at Airman's Corner, A360, near Larkhill and Stonehenge, Wiltshire, 3 km from Winterbourne Stoke, Wiltshire, Great Britain; Accidents were common and often brought pioneering lives to a premature end. The inscription on the memorial reads: 'To the memory of Captain Loraine and Staff-Sergeant Wilson who whilst flying on duty, met with a fatal accident near this spot on July 5th 1912 Erected by their comrades'. Just over 1km to the east is another memorial to another accident)
    • found: Bath University website, 9 June 2009: Death over Salisbury Plain page (the road which runs past Stonehenge, a large stone cairn commemorating the first death from an aeroplane accident in this country in 1912 ... the monument refers to Captain B. Loraine and S/Sergeant R. Wilson, who died in 1912, the first members of the RFC to do so. We can see the monument to Loraine and Wilson, because it stands on the green triangle at the junction of the B3086 and A344, at SU09854290. The spot is still named Airman's Corner)
    • found: Wiltshire County Council website, 9 June 2009: Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record Information page (Airman's Corner; A 20th century Celtic Cross memorial erected to the memory of Major A.W. Hewetson, who was killed whilst flying on the 17th July 1913, when he crashed in a Bristol Prier-Dickson monoplane during the test for his aviator's certificate. The cross is surrounded by six wooden posts, railings and a gated entry)

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