Editing Charles Rolls (section)

==Death==
[[File:Death of Charles Stewart Rolls - Illustrated London News 2.jpg|thumb|right|Photograph on the front page of the ''[[Illustrated London News]]'', 16 July 1910, showing the wreckage of the plane crash which killed Rolls]]
On 12 July 1910, at the age of 32, Rolls was killed in an air crash at [[Hengistbury]] Airfield,<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.hengistbury-head.co.uk/history20.htm | title=Hengistbury Head in the 20th Century | publisher=Hengistbury Head | access-date=29 June 2011 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920111139/http://www.hengistbury-head.co.uk/history20.htm | archive-date=20 September 2011 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> [[Southbourne, Dorset|Southbourne]], [[Bournemouth]] when the tail of his [[Wright Model A|Wright Flyer]] broke off during a flying display. He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident with a powered aircraft, and the eleventh person internationally. His was also the first powered aviation fatality in the United Kingdom.<ref name=TT39323/><ref group=note>"Mr. Rolls is the tenth airman who has met with a fatal accident in a motor-driven flying machine, and he is the first Englishman who has sacrificed his life in the cause of modern aviation." (Aeroplane Accident, Mr Rolls Killed at Bournemouth. ''The Times'', Wednesday, 13 July 1910; p. 12; Issue 39323)</ref>

His grave lies at the churchyard of [[Church of St Cadoc, Llangattock Vibon Avel|St Cadoc's Church]], [[Llangattock-Vibon-Avel]], where many of the Rolls family lie buried in various family tombs. His grave is just below Llangattock Manor and bears the inscription:

<blockquote>"Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God."</blockquote>

[[Statue of Charles Rolls, Monmouth|A statue]] in his memory, in which he is seen holding a biplane model, was erected in [[Agincourt Square, Monmouth]]. A further memorial to him was unveiled in 1981 in the bottom playing field of [[St Peter's Catholic School, Bournemouth|St Peter's Catholic School]], Bournemouth, which was developed on the site of Hengistbury Airfield. There is a stained-glass window in All Saints' Church, [[Eastchurch]] on the Isle of Sheppey, dedicated jointly to Rolls and to fellow pioneer aviator [[Cecil Grace]].<ref>[http://www.eastchurchpc.kentparishes.gov.uk/default.cfm?pid=545 Eastchurch Parish Council] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522031141/http://www.eastchurchpc.kentparishes.gov.uk/default.cfm?pid=545 |date=22 May 2010 }}. Accessed 21 May 2010.</ref>
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Image:MonRolls.jpg|[[Statue of Charles Rolls, Monmouth]]
Image:Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator - geograph.org.uk - 824750.jpg| Statue of Charles Rolls in [[Dover]]
Image:Llangattock-Vibon-Avel 11.jpg|Rolls family graves, [[Llangattock-Vibon-Avel]], [[Monmouthshire]]
File:Charles Stewart Rolls, 1910.jpg|Charles Rolls (centre), 1910
File:All Saints, Eastchurch, Kent - Window - geograph.org.uk - 324764.jpg|Memorial window by [[Karl Parsons]] at [[Eastchurch]], Kent</gallery>

A memorial to Charles Rolls was dedicated 12 July 2022, at Hengistbury Head, Southbourne, Dorset, between the car park and the Hiker cafe.

This was the same day, date and time as it was in 1910 at the time of his crash at Southbourne, Hampshire [as it was at the time] when the tail came off of his Wright Flyer during a flying display on the airfield at what is now St Peters School.
[[File:Memorial to Charles Rolls at Hengistbury Head, Southbourne, Dorset.jpg|thumb|Memorial to Charles Rolls at Hengistbury Head, Southbourne, Dorset]]

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