296 (Stoke Newington) Sqn ATC Roll of Honour
296 (Stoke Newington) Sqn ATC Roll of Honour
In the front office of 296 is the squadron's Roll of Honour. The inscription on the Roll reads:
"Nominal roll of cadets discharged from 296th (Stoke Newington) Squadron Air Training Corps then enlisting in Her Majesty's Royal Air Force,
Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm, Army, Royal Marines.
Those names appearing in red on this roll, are the names of the thirteen cadets who lost their
lives fighting for King and Country countless of cost"
We are very proud of all the men listed on the roll, which is reproduced below. Please click the image to see the larger view.
On Tuesday, August 20th 1940 at 15:52 in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Winston Churchill said:
"The gratitude of every home in our island, in our Empire and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to
the British airmen, who undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of world war by
their prowess and their devotion.
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
By the end of October the Germans virtually abandoned daylight attacks on the UK.
