Bomber Command

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The Site

The headquarters and officers houses were built on the north side of the Walters Ash to Bradenham Road and are in the parish of Lacey Green, their children attending Lacey Green School

90 acres compulsory purchase from the Bradenham Estate for the headquarters and officers houses and some land on the west side of Walters Ash.

The servicemen and women lived on the east side of Walters Ash, where a NAFFI, church, school and playing fields were also constructed. Land was acquired for this :-

3rd May 1940. Mrs Ishbel Ridgley sold eleven and a half acres of Speen Farm. (east side of Walters Ash). click Ishbel MacDonald for Ishbel.

Land for school (site 3) from Mrs Emma Grace. click James & Emma Grace f or more about Emma.

September 1941. Land for sports field site 4 from C W Raffety, estate agents for Walters Ash Farm.

Hallmark April 1968. 1968 Strike Command formed by mergers.

Hallmark April 1975. 1975 Strike Command becomes the Headquarters of U.K. Air Forces.

Hallmark April 1985. 1985 RAF Main Gates, Strike Command Research by Miles Marshall.

Hallmark February 1987. The New RAF Operations Centre. (An exhibition giving the history of this RAF Command Centre from its inception.)

click RAF Local Residents for details of these men and women.