The monument of the Memorial of Rebecq was erected in memory of the Airmen of the JA712-BQ-H of the 550 Squadron RAF North Killingholme crashed there on May 28th 1944
and the 22 civilians who were arrested, jailed and for seven of them, deported in concentration camps, in Germany. Three died in deportation.
Those people were arrested to have hidden the surviving airmen.
Since 2014, the Memorial of Rebecq meets together the six crews of the 550 Squadron fallen in Belgium during WW2.
* It is situated just beside the spot of the crash, Chemin du Stoquois, 32 - 1430 Rebecq.
* The monument is done in painted steel and represents a aircraft crashed in soil. Dimensions are 2 m. hight on 5 m. long.
It contains different memorial plaques:
- First giving details of the unveiling
- Second naming the airmen
- Third naming the civilians involved in the tragedy
- Fourth naming the crews of 550 squadron shot down in Belgium