RAF desert crash victims given military funeral in Cairo . Silent crowds line street . The seven men three British Army officers and four members of the RAF who were killed when the troop carrying plane in which they were passengers crashed and was fired by a landing flare during night operation at Mersa Matruh on the Libyan border were given a full military funeral in Cairo . Representatives of King Farouk and the Egyptian Government , with Sir Miles Lampson , British High Commissioner , followed the gun carriages to the British cemetary . Detachments from every British regiment in Egypt line

RAF desert crash victims given military funeral in Cairo . Silent crowds line street . The seven men three British Army officers and four members of the RAF who were killed when the troop carrying plane in which they were passengers crashed and was fired by a landing flare during night operation at Mersa Matruh on the Libyan border were given a full military funeral in Cairo . Representatives of King Farouk and the Egyptian Government , with Sir Miles Lampson , British High Commissioner , followed the gun carriages to the British cemetary . Detachments from every British regiment in Egypt line Stock Photo

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5797 x 4129 px | 49.1 x 35 cm | 19.3 x 13.8 inches | 300dpi

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12 July 1936

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RAF desert crash victims given military funeral in Cairo . Silent crowds line street . The seven men three British Army officers and four members of the RAF who were killed when the troop carrying plane in which they were passengers crashed and was fired by a landing flare during night operation at Mersa Matruh on the Libyan border were given a full military funeral in Cairo . Representatives of King Farouk and the Egyptian Government , with Sir Miles Lampson , British High Commissioner , followed the gun carriages to the British cemetary . Detachments from every British regiment in Egypt lined the route . Photo shows , lifting one of the coffins from the tractor drawn gun carriage at the gates of the British cemetary in Cairo . 12 July 1936

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