Jon Egging memorial, Bournemouth

20 August 2011, 1.50 pm. The crowds watching the Bournemouth Air Festival are buzzing after a spectacular display by the RAF aerobatic team, the Red Arrows. The team is returning to its temporary base at Bournemouth International Airport. Making a tight turn, Red 4, Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging, blacks out because of high g-forces and his plane crashes into a field near Throop.

 A year later, this memorial to Jon Egging was placed on Bournemouth’s East Cliff. In 2018, because of a landslip, it was moved to the top of the East Cliff zig-zag path. The pilot’s name lives on in the Jon Egging Trust, which ‘helps young people who are facing adversity to be the best they can be’.

Nearest postcode: BH1 3AL
OS reference: SZ104911
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