BODIES OF AIR FORCE OFFICERS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 82, 31 December 1929, Page 9

BODIES OF AIR FORCE OFFICERS

ARRANGEMENTS FOR FUNERAL British Official Wireless. Rugby, December 26. The Air Minister states that it had been proposed to have a joint funeral, with full Air Force ceremonial, for the late Squadron-Leader JonesWilliams and Flight-Lieutenant Jenkins, who lost their lives in Tunis, while attempting to break the world’s long-distance flying record. The Air Council has, however, deferred to the wishes of the relatives of SquadronLeader Jones-Williams, who desire that he should be buried in the family burial ground at Hassocks, in Sussex. In view of this decision, it has now been arranged that Flight-Lieutenant Jenkins will be buried in the Royal Air Force ground at Ipswich Cemetery, where officers of the Royal Air Force stationed at tl aeroplane and armament experimental establishment at Martlesham Heath, to which the deceased officer belonged, are normally interred. There will, accordingly, be no ceremony when the bodies of the two officers arrive at Southampton. If the relatives agree, the two officers will be buried with Air Force honours. The Air Council, Air Force commands, and tlm units concerned will be officially represented, and bearer and firing parties will be provided by the service.