Plaque

Royal Canadian Air Force - WW2 HQ, building

Inscription

Headquarters of the Royal Canadian Air Force Overseas, December 1941 - July 1946.

This plaque is on the building.

Site: Royal Canadian Air Force - WW2 HQ (4 memorials)

WC1, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 20 - 28

This is now a 3-part memorial: a building to the north of Lincoln's Inn Fields and, in the public gardens, a small monument and a tree, all three having their own plaque in English and French. In our photograph the building can be seen behind the memorial and the tree (outside the picture) is the other side of the path. The tree, the monument and its short ceremonial path line up, pointing at the door of the building.

The ceremonial planting of the now unmarked 1946 tree was brought to our attention by Benjamin Moogk via Facebook. He sent us two links to British Pathe films on Youtube: film 1, film 2 the first of which gives a close up of the plaque.

Certainly the plaque is gone, but the tree survived - planted between the road and the path and slightly to the east of the building entrance there is a tree with maple-shaped leaves and, with a girth appropriate, as far as we can guess, for 70 years of growth.

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Royal Canadian Air Force - WW2 HQ, building

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Royal Canadian Air Force Overseas WW2 HQ

This Headquarters provided central support to some 85,000 Canadian personnel ...

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Royal Canadian Air Force  - WW2 HQ, monument

Royal Canadian Air Force - WW2 HQ, monument

This monument is in Lincoln's Inn Square garden, opposite the building at num...

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Royal Canadian Air Force  - WW2 HQ, Tree, 1946

Royal Canadian Air Force - WW2 HQ, Tree, 1946

In the film the year on the plaque is slightly obscured and looks more like "...

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Royal Canadian Air Force  - WW2 HQ, Tree, 1998

Royal Canadian Air Force - WW2 HQ, Tree, 1998

Canadian Maple (Acer Saccharum). This tree was planted by the Rt. Honourable...

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