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 FULL
MILITARY
HONOURS
Member of WAAAF
MELBOURNE, Thursday.-Full
military honours
will be paid when ACW Rita May Leonard (27), WAAAF-, formerly of
Whitemore (T), who before her death was serving at an Air Force
station in Victoria, is buried tomorrow
at Springvale cemetery. This will be
the first
service funeral for a member of the WAAAF. Pallbearers will be
members of the WAAAF, and coffin bearers members of the RAAF.
The coffin will be borne on a gun-carriage drawn by horses.
While walking along
Geelong Rd. near Laverton with Cpl James Keith Walters late on
Wednesday night ACW Leonard was knocked down by a motor-truck
driven by a Chinese market gardener and received injuries from
which she died
The Mercury 9 Jan 1943
FULL
MILITARY
HONOURS
Funeral of WAAAF
MELBOURNE, Friday -An
impressive ceremony accompanied the funeral of.ACW Rita Leonard
today at Springvale cemetery.
Full
military
honours
were given.
The coffin covered with
a flag was borne on a gun-carriage drawn by .horses. ÁCW
Leonard's service cap
rested on the coffin. In the Army
this is a privilege given only to officers,
but in the Air. Force it is acceded to
all ranks. The pallbearers were members of the WAAAF, and the
coffin bearers members of the RÄAF, both from the station at
which ACW Leonard worked., Buglers played "The Last
Post."
Mr and Mrs J. A. Leonard, ACW Leonard's parents,
attended the funeral. Also present were. Sq-Officer : Margaret
Miller. Deputy Director of the WAAAF, Flt-Lt K. M. Horley
officer commanding the section in which ACW Leonard worked and
RAAF officers.
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