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Title
Air Forces Memorial
Date
1953
Medium
Portland stone & bronze doors
Accession number
TW20_ML_S099
Work type
War memorial
Custodian
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II* (England and Wales)
Unveiling date
17th October 1953
Listing date
25/09/98
Access
at all times
Inscription description
inscribed below the front and back parapets of the entrance hall: PER ARDUA AD ASTRA; on a stone in the middle of the quadrangle: THEIR NAME LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE; and in painted light blue lettering on the wall to the left of the entrance doors: IN THIS CLOISTER / ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF / TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN / WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE; and to the right of the entrance doors: THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM / IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER / THE BRITISH ISLES AND / THE LANDS AND SEAS OF / NORTHERN AND WESTERN / EUROPE