25 September 2014, The Tablet

Memorial plan takes off


 
A Catholic pioneer aviator is to be remembered in a church window in the village where he crashed and died (design above). Edward Petre died in Marske-by-the-Sea, north Yorkshire, after his plane was hit by tremendous winds in 1912. His niece Ann Hales-Tooke wrote in The Tablet about the tragedy for the centenary two years ago. “As a result, many people in Marske became interested in Edward, and the vicar of St Mark’s Anglican Church suggested installing this window.” The chur
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