Archive of 11 Large Rough Proof Photographs of the R101 Airship Disaster Showing Repatriation of the Coffins, Funeral Procession and Crowd Scenes Labelled and Stamped 'Sport & General Press Agency' Typed Notes to Reverse: The R101 Disaster Memorial Service as St. Paul's Cathedral A General View as The Lord Mayor [Sir William Waterlow], Cabinet Ministers, leave the Cathedral. Relatives of the Victims Walking in Procession. Part on the Long Queues Waiting to Pay Homage to the Dead. Members of the Imperial Conference and Other Distinguished Guests Leaving St Paul's Cathedral. British Bluejackets Guarding the Coffins on One of the Destroyers Which Brought them Across the Channel. French Soldiers Carrying the Coffins from the Train at Boulogne,

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Archive of 11 large rough proof photographs of the R101 airship disaster, the photographs measure 12'' x 10'' [6] and 10'' x 8'' [5]. A total of 46 of the 54 passengers and crew were killed immediately. Rigger's S. Church and W. G. Radcliffe survived the crash but later died in hospital in Beauvais, bringing the total of dead to 48. The bodies were returned to England and on Friday 10 October a memorial service took place at St Paul's Cathedral while the bodies lay in state in Westminster Hall at the Palace of Westminster. Nearly 90,000 people queued to pay their respects: at one time the queue was half a mile long, and the hall was kept open until 12:35 am to admit them all. The following day a funeral procession transferred the bodies to Euston station through streets crowded with mourners: the bodies were then taken to Cardington village for burial in a common grave in the cemetery of St Mary's church. A monument was later erected, and the scorched Royal Air Force Ensign which R101 had flown on its tail is on display, along with a memorial tablet, in the church's nave. On 27 November 2014, 84 years after the disaster, Baroness Smith of Basildon, together with members of the Airship Heritage Trust, unveiled a memorial plaque to the R101 in St Stephens Hall in the Palace of Westminster. Member of the P.B.F.A. ZEPPELINS, AIRSHIPS & BALLOONING.…

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Archive of 11 Large Rough Proof Photographs of the R101 Airship Disaster Showing Repatriation of the Coffins, Funeral Procession and Crowd Scenes Labelled and Stamped 'Sport & General Press Agency' Typed Notes to Reverse: The R101 Disaster Memorial Service as St. Paul's Cathedral A General View as The Lord Mayor [Sir William Waterlow], Cabinet Ministers, leave the Cathedral. Relatives of the Victims Walking in Procession. Part on the Long Queues Waiting to Pay Homage to the Dead. Members of the Imperial Conference and Other Distinguished Guests Leaving St Paul's Cathedral. British Bluejackets Guarding the Coffins on One of the Destroyers Which Brought them Across the Channel. French Soldiers Carrying the Coffins from the Train at Boulogne,
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Sir John Simon, John Moore-Brabazon, Professor C. E. Inglis [Court of Inquiry]
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October . 1930.
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1930
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