‘He was a beautiful young man’ - one families grief of losing an RFC airman
Lieutenant Kevin Robert Furniss was killed in action during 'Bloody April' of 1917. His family pay tribute to him and recall visiting his grave at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Cambrai East Military Cemetery.
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He was a beautiful man. Handsome body, looks a flower, a rose. May God love him all time.
I visited Ypres 5years ago I touched some head stones... It had and still has a profound effect on me.... All those young lives.... Lost.... WW1 and WW2 we're Britain's greatest generations.. Their likes will never come again. Lest we forget... Bless them all..
Wow! Thank you for your account. I'm so glad you paid respect to your uncle, this nice young man. Such sorrow. Never forget and never surrender to war.
Never forget! These were people, not just numbers on a page.
very touching.
I always feel that I need to touch the headstones when I see visit CWGC sites.
Thank you for uploading
One family’s grief.....
No more beautiful as you put it than all others.
Lest we forget, and I never will.
He was killed in" Bloody April", where the RFC was mindlessly sending men up in outdated, obsolete machines to face the best German airmen on the Western Front. Criminal level of incompetence, IMO. Four times as many RFC losses compared to the Germans.
1914, the beginning of the fall of the greatest empire the world has ever seen.