Ronnie Jarrod

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Ronnie Jarrod lived near the Attlebridge airbase. At the age of 12, he and another boy Kenneth Tayor (aged 10) found a parachute with mortar bomb attached. Unfortunately as they were handling it the bomb exploded and both boys were killed. They are buried in All Saints Churchyard, Weston Longville.

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Aerial photograph of Attlebridge airfield, looking north, the fuel store and a T2 hangar are in the upper centre, 31 January 1946. Photograph taken by No. 90 Squadron, sortie number RAF/3G/TUD/UK/51. English Heritage (RAF Photography).

Attlebridge

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120

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Featured in a film "Attlebridge Voices" produced by Bill Curtis and Paul Hindle. Uploaded to the American Air Museum website with the kind permission of Bill Curtis.