LAST TRIBUTES
FUNERAL OF FLYING-OFFICER OWEN [P«r United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, February 28.. Three volleys of rifle fire broke the stillness at the Waikumete Cemetery, this afternoon, sunlight glinted ou * bucrle as the notes of the Last Jrost • followed the echo of the shots, and then the swelling notes of the R«* veille ’ rang loud and clear as an aero--plane zoomed overhead. ,l t , wa IL , last tribute by the men of the Royal New Zealand Air Force to Flying-officer Graham Mackellar Owen, the young Auckland member of No. 1 Squadron of the New Zealand Territorial Air Force, who was killed when his Bristol Fighter crashed at machine-gun practice on the shore of Lake Ellesmere on Tuesday. The young pilot was accorded an Air Force funeral. The pallbearers were Squadron-leader L. M. Isitt, officer commanding the Hobsonville air base, Flight-lieutenant M. VV* Buckley, Flying-officer C. E. Kay,fly-ing-officer R. Cohen, and Squaaronleader J. Seabrook and Flight-lieuten-ant W. H. Left, both of the New Zealand Air Force Reserve.
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Evening Star, Issue 22276, 29 February 1936, Page 9
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166LAST TRIBUTES Evening Star, Issue 22276, 29 February 1936, Page 9
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