In the 1950s as a schoolboy in Winchester I came across this stone while cycling along the remote track along which it stands.
I was mad keen on aeroplanes at that time. The additional plaque with names had not been added, so it remained a morbid mystery.
I remember quite a lot of soul searching as war memories were still fresh in the populace. I had no idea that I would become a pilot in the RAF, or that I would one day be living in Germany.
On an impulse I looked up this stone online today, on several sites including this one. It has closed a circle for me. I had a wonderful peacetime career in the RAF ( a time for which others are arguing for cold war medals in another thread). I can now appreciate the value of peacetime in itself. Stay safe.