Lowering the coffin into graves at the funeral service for 9359 Sergeant (Sgt) Laurence Maurice ...

Place Europe: United Kingdom, England, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge
Accession Number SUK11631D
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made United Kingdom: England, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge
Date made 7 December 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Lowering the coffin into graves at the funeral service for 9359 Sergeant (Sgt) Laurence Maurice Parker RAAF, (accidentally killed in the United Kingdom on 4 December 1943) and an unknown allied airman. Also shown are the gravesites of 421954 Sgt George Louis Yensen RAAF, (accidentally killed in the United Kingdom on 31 August 1943); 416876 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Lewis William Martin RAAF, (lost on operations over the United Kingdom on 1 September 1943); 413518 Flt Sgt John Mayo Borthwick RAAF, (lost on operations over the United Kingdom on 1 September 1943); and 414810 Flt Sgt Clarence Herbert Mackie RAAF, (lost on operations over Germany on 30 July 1943.