AN AIRMAN’S GRAVE
ISLAND OF HONEYMOON LONDON, Oct. 7 The breeze came sweeping up from the sea as a young R.A.F. man — D.F.M. after 40 flights over Germany —stood with his bride in the quiet churchyard at Maughold, Ilse of Man, They were on their honeymoon.
“If anything happens to me,” he said, “I’d like to be buried here.”
To-day an aeroplane will bear him back to his honeymoon island, comrades will carry him to a grave in the quiet churchyard. For Sergeant Fred Corlett. 24 bomb-aimer and navigator, was killed when the bomber in which he was ' n st.ru c ting crashed in the Home Counties.
It is only three weeks to-day since he was married to Miss Nora Roberts, of Strathallar. Road. Onchan, Isle of Man.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20601, 31 October 1941, Page 5
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