HERO MOURNED
NEW ZEALANDER’S BURIAL BENEATH SIMPLE. CROSS! (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright.) Received June 14, 11 a.m. LONDON, June 13. • Tlie British United Press correspondent with the R.A.F. in France says the war’s most famous air ace, Flying-Officer E. J. Kain, the hero of a hundred air battles, lies beneath a simple wooden cross beside the airfield from which he began so many brilliant exploits. V, Both the, cross and the-'grave are only temporary. The body of the young hero whose death the whole of the R.A.F. mourns will be moved to a war cemetery after the war. Flying-Officer Kain’s funeral was very simple. Only a few of his comrades were present, the others being aloft battling with the' enemy.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 167, 14 June 1940, Page 7
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122HERO MOURNED Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 167, 14 June 1940, Page 7
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