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Airmans's Corner
Knighton Long Barrow
Larkhill Long Barrow
Winterbourne Stoke Crossroads Long Barrow
Winterbourne Stoke Long Barrow
Woodhenge Long Barrow
Blick Mead Encampment
Bluestonehenge
Cuckoo Stone
Vespasians Camp
Woodhenge
Amesbury Barrows
Cursus Barrows
Durrington Barrows
Lake Group Barrows
New King Barrows
Normanton Down Barrows
Old Kings Barrows
Wilsford Barrows
Winterborne Stoke Barrows
Coneybury
Durrington Walls
Robin Hood's Ball
Stonehenge
Stonehenge Avenue
Stonehenge Burials
Stonehenge Car Park Post Holes
Stonehenge Cursuses
Stonehenge Long Barrows
Stonehenge Landscape is in Amesbury Hundred, Wiltshire.
Airmans's Corner, Stonehenge Landscape, Amesbury Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles [Map]
On 5th July 1912 Eustace Broke Loraine (age 32) died in a plane crash at Airmans's Corner [Map]. The first Royal Flying Corps officer to be killed in an aircraft crash while flying on duty. A cross was erected at the site but has since been relocated to the Stonehenge Vistors Centre.
Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 6 July 1912: "Aviation Tragedy. How the Accident Occurred. The inquest was held at Bulford Camp Hospital, Salisbury Plain, yesterday evening on Capt Eustace Brooke Loraine, 33, and Staff-Sergt. Wilson, 29, victims of the Army aeroplane accident. Capt. Loraine was in the Grenadier Guards, and Wilson in the Royal Engineers, and both were attached to the Flying Corps. A verdict of accidental death was returned."