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Reginald 'Rex' Warneford received the Victoria Cross (VC) after becoming the first British pilot to shoot down a German Zeppelin on 7th June 1915. George V awarded him the VC the following day. Only ten days after shooting down the Zeppelin, Warneford went to Paris and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur by the French Army. Whilst there he took a new plane out on a test flight, but it crashed, throwing him from the aircraft. He died shortly afterwards at the British Military Hospital in the Trianon Palace Hotel, Versailles. The right-hand-side silhouette shown in the photograph of this memorial, the 'There But Not There' Tommy silhouette, was created by the photographic and installation artist Martin Anthony Barraud, who, in 2018, executed an art installation spread across the UK, marking the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Title
Memorial to Rex Warneford (1891–1915)
Date
2015
Medium
stone
Accession number
SN6_RD_S078
Acquisition method
commissioned by Highworth Town Council
Work type
War memorial
Owner
Highworth Town Council
Custodian
Highworth Town Council
Work status
extant
Access
at all times
