HEROES OF RlOl
FROM FRANCE TO ENGLAND
TO REST NEAR CARDINGTON
'(British Official Wireless.)
(Received Bth October, 11 a.m.)
RUGBY, 7th October
With full honours from the fighting services of two nations, the bodies of the men who perished in the RlOl are to-day being brought,to England. They will be conveyed from Boulogne to Dover by H.M.S. Tribune and H. M.S. Tempest, and on arrival at London will be removed quietly to the Westminster city mortuary to await funeral and memorial service. The funeral will be of a public character, carried out with appropriate ceremonial. The relatives of the victims of the disaster have been asked to assent to the proposal of the Air Ministry that, as it is practically impossible to identify the great majority of the bodies, it would be in keeping with the circumstances of the case that all should be accorded the honour of a general burial, with a view to a simple memorial being erected over their resting place, probably near Cardingtoil.
France is paying its homage to the dead to-day, which, on the direction of the French1 Prime Minister, M. Tardieu, is being observed as a national day of mourning.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 86, 8 October 1930, Page 11
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 86, 8 October 1930, Page 11
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