STRATFORD PILOT
BURIED !N ENGLAND
(By Air Mail—From "Tfte Post's" London Representative.)
LONDON, August 29,
Bournemouth people attended Bos combe Cemetery in large numbers tt pay a last tribute to Pilot Officer Cecil Henry Bight (Stratford) who was killed when his aeroplane crashed.
Pilot Officer Hight was buried in a corner of the cemetery where men who fell in the Great War lie.
Six Royal' Air Force sergeants bore the coffin, which was draped with a Union Jack and a New Zealand flag, which was sent from Christchurch. two years ago when the Dominion city exchanged greetings with Christchurch. England. The Deputy Mayor, Alderman I. W, Dickinson, represented the Bourne* mouth Cox-poration, and a. large number of wreaths were sent "by the people of Bournemouth. One wreath was bought with the proceeds of an organised house-to-house collection. It was labelled, "In memory of a gallant airman, from the people oi Clarence Park, Boscombe East.*"' A number of people laid bunches of flowers on the grave, some bearing inscriptions.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 107, 1 November 1940, Page 7
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168STRATFORD PILOT Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 107, 1 November 1940, Page 7
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