ARMY TRIBUTE TO COLONEL CODY

Mataura Ensign, 27 September 1913, Page 5

ARMY TRIBUTE TO COLONEL CODY

BURIED AS A SOLDIER. Colonel Cody was buried in the military cemetery at" Alders-hot yesterday (stated the special correspondent of the 'Daily Mail' on August 12. Though he never bore arms he was buried like a soldier, with troops 'standing at attention and tlie. pipers of the Black Watch playing "The Flowers of the Forest" beside his grave. No soldier, however illustrious, comd have had a more impressive burial. The ttendance was enormous. All Alder-shot soldiers and civilians, men, women and children, seemed to line the long winding road from Colonel Cody's house to the soldiers' cemetery at Thornliill. No civilian has been buried there before. But was Colonel Cody a civilian in the sense that most of us are civlians? He made his home at Aldershot. More than any other airman he devoted his energy and his pluck to tho development of the aeroplane as a machine of war. "He was one of us!" said a sergeant at the graveside.