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Old 27th May 2020, 09:00
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Lovely church at Blakeney, well worth a visit. On the north-western side of the church-yard you will find the grave of Air Commodore H.G. Brackley, a pioneer of Imperial Airways Flying Boat routes. The grave used to be kept in pristine order by his son, the Church Warden who died in 2010. Since then it has become rather neglected.
In November 1948 Brackley, then working for BSAA, drowned whilst bathing at Rio de Janeiro. Prior to the funeral his body was flown up to the airfield at nearby Langham in a BSAA York.
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