Royal Flying Corps

The monument was the airmen's own. MaritimeQuest records its inscription, which says it was raised by the officers, cadets, non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Flying Corps, Canada, in memory of comrades who died in Texas between November 1917 and April 1918. Names of those buried beside it are cut on one side, and names of others who died and lie elsewhere on the other. Wikipedia says the three fields, Hicks, Benbrook and Barron, were called the Flying Triangle, and that the Canadians named the whole complex Camp Taliaferro.

What the plaque says

Royal Flying Corps In 1917, during World War I, the U.S., British, and Canadian governments entered into a reciprocal agreement to train military pilots for combat duty. Foreign troops trained in Texas during the winter and in Canada in the summer. Camp Taliaferro in Tarrant County, consisting of three air fields, provided training facilities for members of the Royal Flying Corps and U.S. forces from October 1917 to November 1918. Each field accommodated an average of 2,000 men. Royal Flying Corps expertise and skilled instructors enabled large numbers of Americans to receive excellent flight training in a short time. During the months British and Canadian troops were stationed in Fort Worth, 39 officers and cadets were killed during flight training. Eleven of the men were buried at the three air fields; in 1924 the Imperial War Graves Commission purchased a plot at Greenwood Cemetery for reinterment. A monument was later erected at the site, which now has twelve graves since a veteran who died in 1975 requested burial here with his friends. The Royal Flying Corps, although in Texas for only a short time, had a beneficial and lasting influence on aviation in this country. (1992)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kimbell Art Museum — 1.0 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 1.4 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.
• Tarrant County Courthouse — 1.8 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 2.1 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.

More markers nearby

• William John Marsh — steps away
• Ahavath Sholom Hebrew Cemetery — steps away
• Ormer Leslie Locklear — steps away
• Lawrence Clifton Elliott — 0.3 mi