2018
SJ7581 : WW2 parachute training monument
taken 6 years ago, near to Rostherne, Cheshire East, England
WW2 parachute training monument
Tatton Park in Cheshire was the original drop zone for parachute drops from nearby Ringway Airfield (the home of No.1 Parachute Training School [No.1 PTS]) which later became Manchester Airport. Between 1940 and 1946 Ringway provided training to 60,000 allied paratroops including Americans, Belgians, Canadians, Czechs, Dutch, French, Norwegian and Poles.
The memorial sits in the grounds of Tatton Park and overlooks the surrounding countryside. It is regularly overflown by aircraft taking off from Manchester Airport,
The inscription reads: Throughout most of the Second World War Tatton Park was the dropping zone for No.1 Parachute Training School, Ringway.
This stone was set in honour of those thousands, from many lands who descended here in the course of training, given or received, for
Parachute service with the Allied Forces in every theatre of war.
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