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Number: 5

Glider Memorial

Memorial to the Glider Pilot Regiment.  The inscription reads: This stone is given by the people of Tilshead to commemorate the formation of the Glider Pilot Regiment, which had its first home at this Camp in February 1942.  The Regiment remained here until moving to Fargo Camp, Larkhill, in September 1943.  It disbanded on 1st September 1957 and a new Army Air Corps was formed on the same day.  "Nothing is impossible".
[Photographer: Norman Bayne]