An Airman’s Grave
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, Isle 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, bombaimer and navigator, was killed when the bomber in which he was instructing crashed in the Home Counties.
It is only three weeks to-day ?inco he was married to Miss Nora Roberts, of Strathallan Road, Onchan, Isle of Man.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 266, 8 November 1941, Page 5
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