AIR CRASH VICTIMS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 858, 30 December 1929, Page 9

AIR CRASH VICTIMS

BURIAL IN SEPARATE CEMETERIES TRIBUTE BY AIR FORCE British Official IVircicss RUGBY, Sunday. The Air Minister, Lord Thomson, states that it had been proposed to have a joint funeral, with full Air Force ceremonial, for SquadronLeader Jones-Williams and FlightLieutenant Jenkins, who lost their lives in Tunis while attempting to break the world’s long-distance flving record. The Air Council has, however, deferred to the wishes of the relatives of Squadron-Leader JonesWilliams, who desire that he should be buried in the family burial ground at Hassocks, in Sussex. In view of this decision, it has now been arranged that. Flight-Lieutenant Jenkins will be buried in the Royal Air Force ground at Ipswich cemetery, where officers of the Royal Air Force station at the airplane and armament experimental establishment at Martlesham Heath, to which the deceased officer belonged, are normally interred. There will accordingly be no ceremony when the bodies of the two officers arrive at Southampton. If the relatives agree, the two officers will be buried with Air Force honours. The Air Council, Royal Air Force commands, and units concerned, will be officially represented, and bearers and firing parties will be provided by the service.