WAFF
SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens - Whitehall section
The building behind is the former Air Ministry. We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling. Laid into the platform are four bronze badges, anti-clockwise: RAF, RSF, Met Police, WAFF. They are rather fine so we have treated each one as a memorial.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Trenchard - WAFF
Formed by the British Colonial Office and served in WW1 and WW2. In 1928 bec...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Trenchard - WAFF
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