In the middle of the churchyard.

A stone cross patonce on top of a stepped base. The memorial bears the names of six men lost in the Great War and of two lost in the Second World War. On the back of the base, also included in the text are the words "and those who lost their lives serving with the 493rd Bomb Group U.S.A.F."

The 493rd Bomb Group was the last Eighth Air Force Group to become operational, flying their first combat mission from Debach, Suffolk, on D-Day, 6 June 1944. The Group was known as "the Fighting 493rd", named by their Commanding Officer Colonel Elbert Helton, who held the post for over a year. The Group flew 157 bombing missions, their targets a range of strategic ones in Germany and tactical ones in northern France, Holland and along the Rhine. In additional the crews flew six food missions in May 1945, dropping over 400 tonnes of food into newly-liberated parts of Europe.

Source of information: Imperial War Museum War Memorials Register, https://www.geograph.org.uk, http://www.americanairmuseum.com

Source of images: Imperial War Museum War Memorials Register

1939 - 1945

MAURICE C. LEECH

DANIEL L. SEDGWICK

AND THOSE WHO LOST

THEIR LIVES SERVING

WITH THE

493^RD BOMB GROUP U.S.A.F.