- Type of Memorial
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- WMR Reference Number
- 30620
- Description
- Rectangular plaques with white lettering under a pitched wooden roof and set on two stone steps. The whole is surrounded by a small garden and iron railings.
- Inscription
- First plaque: WE PRAY YOU REMEMBER IN THE LORD THESE GALLANT AIRMEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN FRANCE AND WHO WERE STATIONED AT THIS AERODROME APRIL 1917 OCTOBER 1918/ (Names)// THINK, O LORD, IN MERCY/ ON THE SOULS OF THOSE/ WHO IN FAITH GONE FROM US./ NOW IN DEATH REPOSE./ HERE MID STRESS AND CONFLICT,/ TOILS CAN NEVER CEASE./ THERE, THE WARFARE ENDED,/ BID THEM REST IN PEACE// OFTEN WERE THE WOUNDED/ IN THE DEADLY STRIFE:/ HEAL THEM GOOD PHYSICIAN/ WITH THE BALM OF LIFE./ EVERY TAINT OF EVIL, FRAILTY AND DECAY/ GOOD AND GRACIOUS SAVIOUR/ CLEANSE AND PURGE AWAY// REST ETERNAL GRANT THEM/ AFTER WEARY FIGHT./ SHED ON THEM THE RADIANCE/ OF THY HEAVENLY LIGHT./ LEAD THEM ONWARD, UPWARD/ TO THE HOLY PLACE/ WHERE THE SAINTS, MADE PERFECT/ GAZE UPON THY FACE.
Second plaque: MAY WE MEET OUR BELOVED DEAD IN THE MOUNT OF GOD, HERE THE UNDERSTANDING/ IS RICH, THE WILL IS SATISFIED, THE AFFECTIONS ARE ALL LOVE AND JOY, AND OUR WEAKNESS/ AND DISHONOURS SHALL BE CHANGED TO THE STRENGTH AND BEAUTIES OF THE SONS OF GOD./ O LORD, OUR SAVIOUR, WHO DOST FEED THY FAITHFUL PEOPLE IN GREEN PASTURES AND LEADEST THEM TO THE WATERS OF COMFORT/ TURN NOT AWAY THY SERVANTS FROM THAT PLEASANT LAND OF REST: WHERE WITH THE FATHER AND THE SON, THOU LIVEST/ AND REIGNEST EVER ONE GOD, WORLD WITHOUT END. - AMEN/ O ETERNAL LORD GOD, WHO BEHOLDEST ALL SOULS IN LIFE WE BESEECH THEE TO SHED FORTH UPON THY WHOLE CHURCH IN PARADISE AND/ EARTH, THE BRIGHT BEAMS OF THY LIGHT AND HEAVENLY COMFORT: AND GRANT THAT WE, FOLLOWING THE GOOD EXAMPLES OF THOSE WHO/ HAVE SERVED THEE HERE AND ARE AT REST, MAY, WITH THEM, AT LENGTH ENTER INTO THINE UNENDING JOY, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD
Third plaque: WALMER AERODROME/ WAR MEMORIAL/ YOU ARE INVITED TO USE/ THIS MEMORIAL AS A PLACE OF REMEMBRANCE AND QUIET/ MEDITATION/ THE SEASIDE CAMPS FOR/ LONDON BOYS & GIRLS INC./ IT IS NOT INTENDED/ TO DEDICATE ANY PART OF THIS/ LAND AS A PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY.
SITE WAS GIVEN BY MR F W LEITH