British airmen laid to rest

Closure at last: Family members watching as the eight servicemen were given an official burial with full military honours at the Cheras Road Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery.

KUALA LUMPUR: Unspoken emotions weighed heavily on a damp morning as family members of eight British servicemen who died in the line of duty 67 years ago watched their loved ones finally laid to rest at the Cheras Road Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery.

The eight crew members were pilot John Selwyn Watts, co-pilot Edward Donald Mason, navigator William Kenneth Dovey, air bomber John Trevor Bromfield, air gunners Arthur Turner, Raymond Arthur Towell and William Ross, and flight engineer Jack Blakey.