FUNERAL HONOURS
o fc. MEMBER OF WOMEN'S AIR AUXILIARY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, December 11. Twenty-year-old Madge Chambers, of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, the first Scottish girl to die on active service, was buried with full Royal Air Force honours. Six members of the Royal Air Force acted as pall-bearers and the firing party fired three volleys. Warplanes overhead dipped in salute.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 December 1939, Page 8
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68FUNERAL HONOURS Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 December 1939, Page 8
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