Sponsors sought for Hurricane fly-past

The memorial, the city’s first, is due to be dedicated at the Cenotaph in Paragon Square in Hull on Battle of Britain Sunday, September 18.

Spokesman for the Hull branch of the Royal Air Forces Association Ian Russell said he was looking for people to help cover the £2,700 cost of the flight.

Mr Russell, who served as a ground electrician from 1957 until 1959, mostly at Linton-on-Ouse, said: “We have arranged for a Hurricane to come from Duxford.

“We’ve had three firms and an individual give us £50 – we just need 50 more.”

The memorial consists of a light grey granite ledger standing on a Portland stone plinth which reads: “In friendship and in service one to another we are pledged to keep alive the memory of those of all nations who died in the Royal Air Force and in the Air Forces of the Commonwealth.

“In their name we give ourselves to this noble cause. Proudly and thankfully we will remember them.”

The memorial remembers all those who have served in the Royal Air Forces since the First World War when the RAF was formed to the present day. Mr Russell’s email address is [email protected].