What is recorded here
This stone commemorates the Hon Charles Stewart Rolls who was killed in a flying accident near this spot on the 12th July 1910 the first Briton to die in powered flight
Charles Rolls Memorial marks the site where Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls, a pioneering British aviator and co-founder of Rolls-Royce, died in a flying accident on 12 July 1910, making him the first Briton to die in a powered aircraft crash. The memorial is important as a tribute to early aviation bravery and as a landmark in the history of British flight.
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