5/5 Marie G. 1 year ago on Google
We
parked
at
the
Runnymede
carpark
on
the
main
road
from
Windsor
and
cut
across
the
fields
following
the
footpath
up
into
the
woods.
After
a
pleasant
walk
up
through
the
woods
at
Coopers
Hill
we
arrived
at
the
Air
Forces
Memorial.
It
was
a
beautiful
building
in
white
stone,
a
truly
fitting
memorial
to
all
those
lost
men
and
(a
few)
women
who
served
in
the
Air
Force,
from
all
around
the
Commonwealth,
including
Canada,
Australia
and
India.
Around
a
covered
colonnade
which
enclosed
a
central
square
the
walls
were
covered
with
the
carved
names
of
over
20,000
Air
Force
Personnel
who
were
lost
in
action
and
did
not
have
a
permanent
resting
place.
So
sad
and
sombre
seeing
all
those
names.
Even
more
poignant
were
the
photos
of
the
lost
loved
ones
from
all
those
years
ago
and
messages
and
tokens
from
visiting
families.
The
memorial
really
brought
it
home
to
us
the
sheer
scale
of
those
unfound
numbers
of
young
men
and
women.
Not
just
numbers
but
real
people
with
names
and
bereaved
families.
A
very
sobering
visit.
The
centre
of
the
memorial
overlooked
the
surrounding
countryside
from
its
great
vantagepoint
and
a
couple
of
flights
of
stairs
up
to
the
top
of
the
memorial
and
to
really
splendid
views
of
the
nearby
areas,
including
over
to
Windsor
Castle,
towards
Heathrow
Airport
and
towards
the
taller
buildings
of
London.
A
really
interesting,
if
a
little
poignant,
visit.
Such
a
memorial
will
hopefully
bring
comfort
to
those
visiting
from
afar
to
see
the
names
of
their
long
missing
forebears
carved
in
stone
on
a
beautiful
National
Memorial.
