Subject(s): Bernard Laurence Hieatt Sport: Motorcycle Racing Location: Reading Old Cemetery, Reading, Berkshire Unveiled: 1931 (No formal unveiling) Sculptor: Unknown Material: Stone Status: In Situ Inscription(s): Inscribed on plinth: TO THE PROUD AND BEAUTIFUL MEMORY OF AIR PILOT BERNARD LAURENCE HIEATT THE BELOVED ELDEST SON OF RL & L HIEATT, WHO WAS SUDDENLY CALLED AWAY IN THE HOUR OF HIS VICTORY ON MAY 3RD 1930, AFTER CREATING TWO WORLD RECORDS IN THE TWO HUNDRED MILES MOTORCYCLE AND SIDECAR RACE AT BROOKLANDS, AGED 21 YEARS. "A BITTER GRIEF, A SHOCK SEVERE TO PART WITH ONE WE LOVED SO DEAR. OUR LOSS IS GREAT, WE'LL NOT COMPLAIN, BUT HOPE IN HEAVEN TO MEET AGAIN." [Additional inscription on side of plinth to brother Stanley. Plinth also decorated with image of a biplane; Hieatt was an aviator as well as a motorcycle racer]. Links: None