Biggin Hill RAF Chapel Stained Glass
The RAF Memorial Chapel has twelve stained glass windows in the main chapel, with more in the annex. The photographs of the windows were taken on 03-Mar-2023. This is a work in progress, please get in contact with background information that can be added to the page. The window numbering is my own.
- The Royal Air Force Memorial Chapel at RAF Biggin Hill is look after by the RAF Biggin Hill Museum and Chapel
- For more detail on the RAF badges, have a loot at the website of the RAF Heraldry Trust.
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North Wall Stained Glass
A composite photograph of the stained glass windows along the Northern wall.
South Wall Stained Glass
A composite photograph of the stained glass windows along the Southern wall.
N1: Spitfire Aircraft
Given by Vickers-Armstrongs Limited
S1: No. 610 Squadron RAF
F/O Gerald Ivo Cuthbert RAF of 601 Squadron
Killed in action in May 1940
Major Sidney John Cuthbert Scots Guards,
his brother killed in action in July 1944.
All things that are, Weep for them!
Weep for Youth that laughed so bright,
extravagantly fallen in the fight.
N2: RAF Fighter Command
Given by Fighter Command
- Motto: Offence Defence
- Wikipedia
- A person making the stained glass is thought to of had a brother serving in an RAF Mosquito squadron, hence the real mosquito insect entombed in the stained glass as a visual pun
S2: No. 72 Squadron RAF
In Honoured Memory of a Dearly Loved Son
Sgt. Pilot Leonard Stock
Missing October 26th 1941
- Motto: Swift
- Wikipedia
N3: No. 141 Squadron RAF
F/O Peter Bishop
Killed flying 8th July 1955
Il y a longtemps que je t’aime; jamais je ne t’oublierai
From his brother
- Motto: Caedimus Noctu – “We slay by night”
- F/O = Flying Officer
- Google translation from French:
“I have loved you for a long time; I will never forget you” - Aircraft is a Gloucester Meteor Jet
- Wikipedia
S3: No. 79 Squadron RAF
Given by Rolls-Royce Limited
- Motto: Nil nobis obstare potest – “Nothing can stand against us”
- Wikipedia
N4: No. 92 Squadron RAF
And some there be who have no memorial
- Motto: Aut pugna aut morere – “Either fight or die”
- Wikipedia
- East Indies Squadron
S4: No. 74 Squadron, RAF
Given by the Corporation of Lloyds
in memory of Lloyds men
who gave their lives in the
Battle of Britain
- Motto: I fear no man
- Wikipedia
- Lloyds should be written as Lloyd’s when referring to the Corporation rather than other Lloyds entities
N5: No. 32 Squadron RAF
Flying Officer Ralph William Donovan
406 Squadron RCAF
Given by his parents
- Motto: Adeste Comites – Latin for “Rally round, comrades”
- RCAF = Royal Canadian Air Force
- Wikipedia – 32 Squadron
- Wikipedia – 406 Squadron
S5: No. 11 Group RAF
Presented by Fighter Command 1955
- Motto: Tutela cordis – Latin for ‘Guardians of the heart’
- Wikipedia
N6: RAF Biggin Hill
These windows were placed here during the Command of Wing Commander D.G. Smallwood D.S.O. M.B.E D.F.C and the Chaplaincy of the Revererand Vivian Symons 18th September 1955.
Given by all ranks of this Station as a memorial to those who fell while serving here during the Battle of Britain
- Motto: The Strongest Link
- Wikipedia
- Badge shows an unbroken chain
S6: Hurricane Aircraft
Given by Hawker Aircraft Limited
