“COBBER” KAIN
SIMPLE BURIAL CEREMONY.
Britain's most famous air ace of this war, Flying-Officer E. J. ("Cobber”) Kain, lies beneath a wooden cross in a plot of earth beside a former British airfield in Franco, from which he set out on many brilliant flights. The British United Press correspondent with the R.A.F. in France describes his simple funeral, which was attended by a few comrades. Many others would have liked to have been present, but at the moment fac padre was conducting the service they were aloft battling with the enemy. The cross and grave, it is stated, are only temporary. When the war is over the body of this young hero, whose death is mourned by the whole R.A.F.. will bo removed either to a permanent British war cemetery to rest beside men killed in the last war or to a new one.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1940, Page 8
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144“COBBER” KAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1940, Page 8
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