North Elmham
Note: This map only gives the position of North Elmham village within the U.K.
NORTH ELMHAM: Military Landing Ground
Military user: RFC (Royal Flying Corps)
51 [Home Defence] Squadron (Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 & B.E.12, Avro 504K)
Location: In/near North Elmham on the B1110 just N of the B1145 junction, about 5nm N of Dereham
Period of operation: 1917
NOTES: We are always asked to believe that our armed forces are highly trained and disciplined and yet history shows that the result is often an utter shambles at best in many cases.
This Landing Ground seems to illustrate just how inept, in some cases, our armed forces often were. Or does it? Obviously somebody decided this site would make a suitable Night Landing Ground for 51 Sqdn. So why was it apparently used just from February to March in 1917?
Very often a ‘regular’ Landing Ground became water-logged, or beset by a similar calamity, and some quick thinking was required to devise a suitable alternative. I suspect this was the case here?
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