BOMB VICTIMS
COVENTRY MASS FUNERAL ATTENDED EY THOUSANDS. FAMILY OF SIX KILLED IN COAST TOWN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, April 15. Three thousand people attended the first of two mass funerals of the latest Coventry air raid victims. Union Jacks covered plain elm coffins and a thousand wreaths were deposited near the grave. Buglers sounded the “Last Post.” A. family of six, consisting of a man and his wife, a son and his wife and tv/b children were killed when a house was directly hit in a south coast town last night.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 April 1941, Page 6
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97BOMB VICTIMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 April 1941, Page 6
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