FAMOUS AIR ACE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24325, 15 June 1940, Page 9

FAMOUS AIR ACE

“ COBBER ” KAIN’S FUNERAL TEMPORARY BURIAL PLACE BODY TO BE MOVED LATER LONDON, June 13. The British United Press correspondent with the R.A.F. in France says the war’s most famous air ace, “ Cobber” Kain, the hero of 100 air battles, lies beneath a simple wooden cross beside the airfield from which he began many brilliant exploits. Both the cross and the grave are only temporary. The body of the young hero whose death the whole R.A.F. mourns, will be moved to a war cemetery after the war. Kain’s funeral was very simple. Only a few comrades were present. The others were aloft battling with the enemy. A powerfully-built young man who looks like a first-class Rugby threequarter, Pilot Officer Deere, is carrying on where “ Cobber ” Kain left off. Deere was in the thick of the Flanders battle, and was finally brought down with a slight.head wound. With the aid of abandoned motor cars and motor cycles he succeeded in linking up with the B.E.F. unit en route to Dunkirk. He eventually got to England aboard a destroyer under a severe aerial bombardment. One of his first acts after his arrival was to go to New Zealand House and get a stencil of a kiwi with which to decorate his new plane.