WWI
Buried Dec 11, 1918
Lot 836
Space- 03
Lieut Lee Wilson Bird
Feb 28,1895-Dec 6,1918
LIEUT. BIRD IS GIVEN A MILITARY FUNERAL.
Accompanied by Lieut.Blakely as an escort, the body of Lieut.Lee Bird, who was killed on Brooks Aviation Field, Texas, arrived Tuesday evening and a military funeral was given the unfortunate aviator at the Episcopal church Wednesday afternoon. Headed by the drum corps, a detachment of the Home Guards and delegations from the B.of L.E. and the Masons, the funeral cortege reached the church shortly after two o'clock, and when the attendants filed into the building the seating capacity was insufficient by half to accommodate all. The pall bearers were soldiers, Lieut. Blakely. Lieut. Geo.N.Gibbs, Lawrence Murrin, Jess Smith, George Lannin and George Walter. The hymns were rendered by a soldiers' quartette composed of Messrs.Birge, Harcourt. Strauss and Munger. The services were by Rev.Franklin Koch of tho Lutheran church. A large flag covered the casket. At the grave taps were blown and a salute fired. Lieut. Bird met his death Friday of last week. He and Lieut. Howes started to fly about one o'clock in the afternoon. Their plane had only reached a height of about one hundred feet when it was caught in a swift current of air which threw it into a tail spin and the machine fell to the ground. Lieut. Bird as instantly killed, his neck being broken in tho fall. He was badly bruised about the face and sustained a broken wrist. Lieut.Howes was seriously injured and is not expected to live.
The North Platte semi-weekly tribune., December 13, 1918
Buried Dec 11, 1918
Lot 836
Space- 03
Lieut Lee Wilson Bird
Feb 28,1895-Dec 6,1918
LIEUT. BIRD IS GIVEN A MILITARY FUNERAL.
Accompanied by Lieut.Blakely as an escort, the body of Lieut.Lee Bird, who was killed on Brooks Aviation Field, Texas, arrived Tuesday evening and a military funeral was given the unfortunate aviator at the Episcopal church Wednesday afternoon. Headed by the drum corps, a detachment of the Home Guards and delegations from the B.of L.E. and the Masons, the funeral cortege reached the church shortly after two o'clock, and when the attendants filed into the building the seating capacity was insufficient by half to accommodate all. The pall bearers were soldiers, Lieut. Blakely. Lieut. Geo.N.Gibbs, Lawrence Murrin, Jess Smith, George Lannin and George Walter. The hymns were rendered by a soldiers' quartette composed of Messrs.Birge, Harcourt. Strauss and Munger. The services were by Rev.Franklin Koch of tho Lutheran church. A large flag covered the casket. At the grave taps were blown and a salute fired. Lieut. Bird met his death Friday of last week. He and Lieut. Howes started to fly about one o'clock in the afternoon. Their plane had only reached a height of about one hundred feet when it was caught in a swift current of air which threw it into a tail spin and the machine fell to the ground. Lieut. Bird as instantly killed, his neck being broken in tho fall. He was badly bruised about the face and sustained a broken wrist. Lieut.Howes was seriously injured and is not expected to live.
The North Platte semi-weekly tribune., December 13, 1918
WWI
Buried Dec 11, 1918
Lot 836
Space- 03
Lieut Lee Wilson Bird
Feb 28,1895-Dec 6,1918
LIEUT. BIRD IS GIVEN A MILITARY FUNERAL.
Accompanied by Lieut.Blakely as an escort, the body of Lieut.Lee Bird, who was killed on Brooks Aviation Field, Texas, arrived Tuesday evening and a military funeral was given the unfortunate aviator at the Episcopal church Wednesday afternoon. Headed by the drum corps, a detachment of the Home Guards and delegations from the B.of L.E. and the Masons, the funeral cortege reached the church shortly after two o'clock, and when the attendants filed into the building the seating capacity was insufficient by half to accommodate all. The pall bearers were soldiers, Lieut. Blakely. Lieut. Geo.N.Gibbs, Lawrence Murrin, Jess Smith, George Lannin and George Walter. The hymns were rendered by a soldiers' quartette composed of Messrs.Birge, Harcourt. Strauss and Munger. The services were by Rev.Franklin Koch of tho Lutheran church. A large flag covered the casket. At the grave taps were blown and a salute fired. Lieut. Bird met his death Friday of last week. He and Lieut. Howes started to fly about one o'clock in the afternoon. Their plane had only reached a height of about one hundred feet when it was caught in a swift current of air which threw it into a tail spin and the machine fell to the ground. Lieut. Bird as instantly killed, his neck being broken in tho fall. He was badly bruised about the face and sustained a broken wrist. Lieut.Howes was seriously injured and is not expected to live.
The North Platte semi-weekly tribune., December 13, 1918
Buried Dec 11, 1918
Lot 836
Space- 03
Lieut Lee Wilson Bird
Feb 28,1895-Dec 6,1918
LIEUT. BIRD IS GIVEN A MILITARY FUNERAL.
Accompanied by Lieut.Blakely as an escort, the body of Lieut.Lee Bird, who was killed on Brooks Aviation Field, Texas, arrived Tuesday evening and a military funeral was given the unfortunate aviator at the Episcopal church Wednesday afternoon. Headed by the drum corps, a detachment of the Home Guards and delegations from the B.of L.E. and the Masons, the funeral cortege reached the church shortly after two o'clock, and when the attendants filed into the building the seating capacity was insufficient by half to accommodate all. The pall bearers were soldiers, Lieut. Blakely. Lieut. Geo.N.Gibbs, Lawrence Murrin, Jess Smith, George Lannin and George Walter. The hymns were rendered by a soldiers' quartette composed of Messrs.Birge, Harcourt. Strauss and Munger. The services were by Rev.Franklin Koch of tho Lutheran church. A large flag covered the casket. At the grave taps were blown and a salute fired. Lieut. Bird met his death Friday of last week. He and Lieut. Howes started to fly about one o'clock in the afternoon. Their plane had only reached a height of about one hundred feet when it was caught in a swift current of air which threw it into a tail spin and the machine fell to the ground. Lieut. Bird as instantly killed, his neck being broken in tho fall. He was badly bruised about the face and sustained a broken wrist. Lieut.Howes was seriously injured and is not expected to live.
The North Platte semi-weekly tribune., December 13, 1918
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