BOMBING VICTIMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 296, 13 December 1940, Page 10

BOMBING VICTIMS.

UNION JACK URGED

DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY

(Special) LONDON". October 12. Civilian victims of air raid* on Britain mily lie buried with semi-military honours. including the use of the Union .Tack, if plans now being considered by a London couii'ty Ixirough are adopted. A corporation committee is considering lepicsent»t ions to the (lo\eriiineiit. Tile borough-one tlmt has sijffered heavily in the early days of the air blitz consider* that men. women and children killed in air raids lia\e died on l lie battlefield for their country, just j Is h coldier h;«s. "Some kind of honour to Ik 1 paid to these \ictims." tin 1 town clerk said this week. "It need not be a materia I honour, and it has been suggested that the bodies of the victims slioilld be covered ith the I'll ion Jack on the way to the funeral as at a mili tary funeral. Funerals of air raid victims will then approximate to military funerals and the people will realise that these folk have given their lives for their country. "it will lessen the gruesomeness of these sad occasions and turn them into | something more glorious than just an I ordinary funeral. Civilians are 011 the battlefield to-day and they are entitled to some national honour when tliev fall."