Memorial to Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 12 September 2022
We passed through Moffat on our way down south and decided to explore the park to the south of the town.
I have posted about Moffat several times before.
I discovered there a memorial to Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, head of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, who was born in the town.
It could be said he was the architect of that victory over the Luftwaffe which made Britain’s continuing survival possible.
Surmounted by Churchill’s famous quote and flanked by the dates 1882 and 1970, the memorial has the dedication, “With a nation’s gratitude Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, Baron of Bentley Priory, GCB, GCVO, CMG, leader of the few, Battle of Britain, 1940, architect of deliverance,” with below, “Born in Moffat.”
Dowding Memorial:-
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