Aviation Themed Headstones

[Jerry O'Neill]

I don't want to seem morbid here, so stone me if you have too, but I was at a cemetery today and within 100 feet of me, I found these three aviation themed headstones.

Corsair Pilot:


Lancaster Pilot. He came to the U.S. after the war:


Just a nice statement of their love:


Anybody ever see any interesting ones in their neighborhood? I don't mean memorials but private individuals showing their link to aviation.
Jerry

[Warbird Kid]

Not to say the name here, but I know whose Corsair Tombstone that is from the clues! Our own Sue French from the shop (Her father John French was a fellow Corsair Test Pilot) knew that person. I also know why you probably were in the cemetery today.

[Steve T]

I live near Hamilton Cemetery (a huge graveyard dating from Victorian times) and thus there are a couple memorial manufacturers in the neighbourhood; one of those had a small display of stones in its backyard, at at one time one showed up there with a nicely-rendered B-24 engraved at the top. Interestingly, the only marking on the Lib was the number "432"; 432 was one of the 6 Group RCAF bomber units...which did not fly Liberators. What I think may have happened was that a request was made to have a 432 Sqn bomber appear on this stone, and in search of a Halifax or Lancaster, someone ran across a nice photo of the broadly-similar B-24 and replicated that on the stone. No way to know for sure of course. That stone is long gone; I did take pictures of it but am not sure where those are now...