FAMOUS AVIATORS
FIRST TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC. A PERMANENT MEMORIAL. Rugby, June 4. It is understood that an announcement regarding the provision of a permanent memorial of the first Atlantic flight, made by the late Sir John Alcock and Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, on June 14, 1919, will be made at a luncheon to be held next week to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the flight. It is proposed to erect obelisks at their starting point in Newfoundland and at the finishing point in Ireland, and in addition to hold each year on June 14 a special anniversary flying event for aviators. —British Official Wireless.
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Southland Times, Issue 20793, 6 June 1929, Page 5
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