Wensleydale:-
aviation heritage is big in Lincolnshire at the moment and the local councils have embraced it.
and there was I thinking it was about Remembrance, when all the time it was about Aviation Heritage, and in particular Lincolnshire Bombing Offensive Heritage at that!
As you so rightly predict there will be endless squabbles about who is in and who is out, when it could have simply included the entire alleged 55,573. Alleged, because that is almost certainly wrong, but at least tries to account for all BC losses rather than those who were based inside or outside a County boundary at time of death...
I see they are presently laying claim to 25,611. Oh, but wait, that includes Lincolnshire
and adjacent airfields:-
Lincolnshire Bomber Command Memorial and Interpretation Centre
A touch of Lincolnshire Poaching?