Section Officer, 3263. Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Age 31. Daughter of Doris Mary Alice Fry and stepdaughter of Arthur Fry, of Bewdley, Worcestershire, England. Fort Myer Sec. South half. Gr.88.
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WAAFS BURIED AT CAPITAL
Two Victims of Auto Accident Are Interred at Arlington
WASHINGTON, November 19, 1943 – Two members of the British Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, killed in an automobile accident, were buried today in Arlington National Cemetery, the first foreign service women to be interred at the national shrine.
Section Officer Monica M. Daventry of Worcester, England, and Section Officer Ruth P. Watson of Hampstead, England, were en route home from duty last Tuesday night when fatally injured.
Their coffins, draped with the Union Jack and banked with flowers, were carried into the Fort Myer Chapel, where United States chaplains conducted the services.
A detail of American soldiers served as pallbearers, with twelve members of the Waves as honorary pallbearers.
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WAAFS BURIED AT CAPITAL
Two Victims of Auto Accident Are Interred at Arlington
WASHINGTON, November 19, 1943 – Two members of the British Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, killed in an automobile accident, were buried today in Arlington National Cemetery, the first foreign service women to be interred at the national shrine.
Section Officer Monica M. Daventry of Worcester, England, and Section Officer Ruth P. Watson of Hampstead, England, were en route home from duty last Tuesday night when fatally injured.
Their coffins, draped with the Union Jack and banked with flowers, were carried into the Fort Myer Chapel, where United States chaplains conducted the services.
A detail of American soldiers served as pallbearers, with twelve members of the Waves as honorary pallbearers.
Section Officer, 3263. Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Age 31. Daughter of Doris Mary Alice Fry and stepdaughter of Arthur Fry, of Bewdley, Worcestershire, England. Fort Myer Sec. South half. Gr.88.
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WAAFS BURIED AT CAPITAL
Two Victims of Auto Accident Are Interred at Arlington
WASHINGTON, November 19, 1943 – Two members of the British Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, killed in an automobile accident, were buried today in Arlington National Cemetery, the first foreign service women to be interred at the national shrine.
Section Officer Monica M. Daventry of Worcester, England, and Section Officer Ruth P. Watson of Hampstead, England, were en route home from duty last Tuesday night when fatally injured.
Their coffins, draped with the Union Jack and banked with flowers, were carried into the Fort Myer Chapel, where United States chaplains conducted the services.
A detail of American soldiers served as pallbearers, with twelve members of the Waves as honorary pallbearers.
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WAAFS BURIED AT CAPITAL
Two Victims of Auto Accident Are Interred at Arlington
WASHINGTON, November 19, 1943 – Two members of the British Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, killed in an automobile accident, were buried today in Arlington National Cemetery, the first foreign service women to be interred at the national shrine.
Section Officer Monica M. Daventry of Worcester, England, and Section Officer Ruth P. Watson of Hampstead, England, were en route home from duty last Tuesday night when fatally injured.
Their coffins, draped with the Union Jack and banked with flowers, were carried into the Fort Myer Chapel, where United States chaplains conducted the services.
A detail of American soldiers served as pallbearers, with twelve members of the Waves as honorary pallbearers.
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