• 17GW493 - 17GW502 Richthofen was buried with full military honours, with much saluting and presenting of arms, on 22 April 1918 at Bertangles. Six Australian pilots served as pall bearers. However, some of the local people did not view the Boche warrior and slayer of their aviators with the same respect and that night the grave was desecrated. ((picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war's greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021)
  • MvR's coffin being carried from the AFC camp. (picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war's greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021)
  • THE FUNERAL OF RITTMEISTER MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN, APRIL 1918 (Q 10917) The funeral procession of Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen at Bertangles, 22 April 1918. No. 3 Squadron Australian Flying Corps. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205246564
  • THE FUNERAL OF RITTMEISTER MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN, APRIL 1918 (Q 10916) The procession on its way to the cemetery. No. 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. Bertangles, 22 April 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205246563
  • a black and white photo of a group of people
    picture source: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search Engine
  • THE FUNERAL OF RITTMEISTER MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN, APRIL 1918 (Q 10920) Officers lowering the coffin into the grave. No. 3 Squadron Australian Flying Corps. Bertangles, 22 April 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205215976
  • 17GW501 picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war's greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021
  • 17GW502 picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war's greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021
  • Australian guard of honour preparing to fire a volley of three shots over MvR's grave. (picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war's greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021)
  • THE FUNERAL OF RITTMEISTER MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN, APRIL 1918 (Q 10921) Australians firing a volley at the graveside. No. 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. Bertangles, 22 April 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205246565
  • 17GW498 picture source: The Great War Illustrated 1917, William Langford & Jack Holroyd
  • Local villagers and members of the AFC looking at the grave of MvR. Some of those villagers looking on may have been responsible for trying to dig it up that same night, objecting to the burying of a German in their local graveyard at Sailly-le-Sec, Somme. (picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war's greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021)
  • a black and white photo of a cross in the woods
    picture source: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search Engine
  • No. 3 Squadron, AFC, contributed a broken R.E.8 propeller to be fashioned into a Christian symbol suitable for Richthofen's grave marker. (Inside the victories of Manfred von richthofen - Volume 2, James F. Miller, Aeronaut Books, 2016)
  • MvR's grave with a cross made from the remnants of a propeller at the head. (picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war's greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021)
  • What remains today of MvR's grave in Bertangles. (picture source: Manfred von Richthofen, The man and the aircraft he flew, David Baker, 1990, Outline Press)
  • The entrance to the Bertangles Communal Cemetary. (picture source: self, December 2023)
  • The entrance to the Bertangles Communal Cemetary. (picture source: self, December 2023)
  • From within the cemetary, approximately the same angle of the historical pictures. (picture source: self, December 2023)
  • The spot where MvR was initially buried in nowadays Bertangles. (picture source: self, December 2023)
  • The commemorative sign close to the Bertangles Cemetary. (picture source: self, December 2023)

MvR funeral

Event ID: 279

Categories: 

General Event
Deutsch
http://www.frontflieger.de/4-ric13.html

23 April 1918

49.97323642687367, 2.2927864127167634
Bertangles

Source ID: 8

http://www.frontflieger.de/4-ric13.html p.   

‘Two days after his death, Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen is buried with full military honours (his coffin is carried by Australian officers of the same rank) in the municipal cemetery in Bertangles.’

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