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Hundreds at full military send-off for one of the last ‘pilots of the Caribbean’
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Hundreds at full military send-off for one of the last ‘pilots of the Caribbean’
Hundreds of mourners gathered at a historic church in central London yesterday for the funeral of one of the last black RAF pilots to have fought in the Second World War.
The funeral of Flight Sergeant Peter Brown was supposed to have been a low-key affair, just a handful of friends and neighbours at a suburban crematorium. Then
Hundreds of mourners gathered to pay their respects and celebrate the life of one of the last black RAF pilots to have fought in the Second World…
Plans to hold the funeral at a 140-capacity chapel in Mortlake, south-west London, in March were postponed because of a surge in requests to attend.