Figure Of Victory-For Runnymede Memorial To Commonwealth Airmen -- Mr. Vernon Hill of Steyning, Sussex, at work on the figure of victory which overlooks the cloisters of the memorial. other figures will symbolize justice and courage. A temple of memory will be unveiled by the Queen in October the memorial to 20,000 airman (officers and men) of the Commonwealth air forces who lost their lives in the last war while serving from bases in the United Kingdom and north-western Europe and who have no know grave. July 8, 1953.