DIED WITH TERRIBLE SECRET.

Western Star, 2 August 1938, Page 2

DIED WITH TERRIBLE SECRET.

It is claimed by his family that 88-year-old Charles Edwin Tinman, late surgeon dentist to the King, who died at Slough, England, in May, took with him to the grave a secret so terrible that he would not tell a soul, in spite of the fact that in a war he might have saved thousands of lives. Eve r since the pioneering days of aviation he foresaw the possibilities of the aeroplane as a machine of war. He foresaw the destruction of whole cities from the air, and was so filled by this thought that he dedicated his life to perfecting a plan that would save Britain from attacking air fleets. “He never told us what it was,’ his daughter said to a ‘Sunday Express’ representative. Father was a brilliant man and very sincere. A few weeks before he died he made an appointment with a Government air-raid expert to discuss the plan, but afterwards said it was so horrible that decided to cancel the interview. The plan, I understand, had nothing a T His secret ha* died with him, 1 ’ *