Tydd St Mary
TYDD St MARY: Military aerodrome
Note: These pictures are from my Google Earth © derived database.
Military operator: RFC (Royal Flying Corps), later RAF (Royal Air Force)
No.51 [Home Defence] Sqdn (Royal Aircraft Factory FE.2b, later Avro 504N)
Period of operation: 1916 to 1919
Location: Just NE of Tydd St Mary village, just SW of the WW2 RAF SUTTON BRIDGE aerodrome, 7nm ESE of Holbeach town centre and 10nm W of King's Lynn town centre
Landing area: 125 acres
NOTES:
After twenty plus years spent on research for this 'Guide', I was fairly confident I had nearly all of the 1000+ WW1 flying sites in the U.K. listed. But, in 2022, Mr Graham Frost, a great friend of this 'Guide', directed me to this location - adding that quite a bit of information was available on what I call the 'interweb'.
So, without too much doubt, there are yet a few more to be added.
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