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Notes: Steve Grigg, who kindly supplied this item’s NGR, also gives us the text on the commemorative rock:
RAF Harrowbeer Operational 1941-1949
From this station flew pilots of many Commonwealth and Allied
Countries, including Britain, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France,Poland and the United States of America.
With the support of their ground crews and Airfield Defence units.
This stone is in memory of all those who served here.
And especially those who gave their lives.Many local residents helped build and maintain this airfield.
Unveiled by the first Station Commander, Group Captain the Honourable E.F.Ward,
On the 15th, August 1981, the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the Station.