A toast for Red Baron, victims
31 August 2016 - 09:39
The families of the Red Baron and the first two British pilots he killed will meet to mark the centenary of the deaths and toast to the soldiers' memory. On September 17 1916, Englishman Lionel Morris, 19, and Welshman Tom Rees, 21, became the first victims of Manfred von Richthofen - the man later known as the Red Baron, Germany's famous fighter pilot of World War 1.Now, to commemorate the event, representatives of all three families will meet to honour the deaths of Captain Rees and Second Lieutenant Morris, and the moment the Red Baron began his path in military history.With every plane downed in the war, the Baron would commission a silver schnapps cup and toast the death...
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