G-AJBO memorial plaque 19th October 2011
Dedication of a Memorial to the victims of a Viking accident 1st May 1957
at Blackbushe Airport.
It was a very moving event with some 150 people present. Eight families attended along with a good number of ex Eagle staff including their Chairman and Founder of the Eagle Group Mr Harold Bamberg OBE. Various members of local councils were also present. We are grateful to members of the Royal Engineers from the Gibraltar Barracks along with their padre for supporting us, also to the RAF association and the Royal British Legion.
We would like to put on record our special thanks to the managment at Blackbushe Airport for allowing us to place the memorial plaque on the control tower.
The plaque was unveiled by Harold Bamberg and Mrs Marjorie Fatherly, mother of one of the men that was killed. She now in her nineties.
I would like to thank the previous messages that helped in our early research. We have now located nine famlies and will continue the search for others.