2LT Mortimer Park Crane Cenotaph - RAF, WW1
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In the corner of the cemetery against the wall.
CenotaphA standard upright CWGC WW1 Headstone.
The cenotaph of 2LT Mortimer P. Crane, a Philadelphian, who joined the Royal Flying Corps and trained in Canada. He was transferred to the UK for final training before flying in combat in France. He was killed in his final training session on May 15, 1918 near this churchyard in Amesbury, Wiltshire, on the River Avon, England.
He was buried in the North Otterington Cemetery until 1921 when his family had his transferred to the West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and placed in the Everglade 13. Crypt 1, listed as a Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery.
His inscription in the US reads:
Mortimer Park Crane
Lieutenant Royal Air Force
1894-1918
"Greater Love Hath No Man Than This
That A Man Lay Down His Life For His Friends."
Source: Find a Grave; https://www.cwgc.org
Monument Text:
HERE RESTED
MORTIMER
PARK CRANE
LIEUTENANT
ROYAL AIR FORCE
1918 1921
IN LOVING CARE
UNTIL SUCH TIME
AS HIS PARENTS
WERE ABLE TO BEAR
HIM TO THE FAMILY
VAULT IN
PHILADELPHIA
U.S.A.
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
Royal Air Force (RAF)
Royal Flying Corps
Wars:
WWI
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