DEATH OF BRITISH AIRMEN

Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1929, Page 10

DEATH OF BRITISH AIRMEN

ARRANGEMENTS FOR FUNERAL TRAGEDY OF DISTANCE FLIGHT. British Wireless. Rugby, Deo. 29. Thu Air .Minister states that it had been proposed to have a joint funeral, with full Air Force ceremonial, for Squadron-Leader Jones-Williams and Flight-Lieutenant Jenkins, who lost their lives in Tunis while attempting to break the world's long distance flying record. The Air Council has. however, deferred to the wishes of relatives of 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 stationed at the aeroplane and armament experimental establishment at Martlesham Heath, to which he belonged, are normally interred. There will accordingly bo no ceremony when the bodies of the two officers arrive at Southampton. The Air Council, Air Force commamh and units concerned will bo officially represented and hearer and firing parties will bo provided by the service.