The Our Wall Battle of Britain Poem was written by Flight Lieutenant William Walker.
It was read at the unveiling of the memorial wall that forms part of the national Battle of Britain Memorial.

Here inscribed the names of friends we knew
Young men with whom we often flew.
Scrambled to many angels high,
They knew that they or friends might die.
Many were very scarcely trained,
And many badly burnt or maimed.
Behind each name a story lies
Of bravery in summer skies;
Though many brave unwritten tales
Were simply told in vapour trails.
Many now lie in sacred graves
And many rest beneath the waves.
Outnumbered every day they flew,
Remembered here as just ‘The Few’.

Flight Lieutenant William Walker

The memorial wall was added to the Battle of Britain Memorial in 2005 with almost 3000 names being engraved on black granite tablets.

The National Memorial to the Few at Capel-le-Ferne, on the famous white cliffs between Dover and Kent, occupies a special place in the hearts and minds of all those who have visited this moving site.

Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill