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October 23, 2008
Interesting
Diverging, originally uploaded by LynetteLan.
I was poking around on Wikipedia yesterday, when I came across the information that an organization in Great Britain is trying to catalog and photograph every single grave of British and Commonwealth soldiers who died in armed conflict, after World War I. Naturally I took a look, and did a search on my last name. I came across two people, who died on the same day and had the same parents. I did some further digging, an found this:
OSGOOD, Eric Edwin Heaton
Sergeant (Pilot) 758217,
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Died: 17 July 1940. Age 20.
Killed with brother Ronald in an aircraft collision in the north of England. Attended Northern Grammar School, Portsmouth
Son of Albert George and Elizabeth Osgood of Widley.
Grave Ref. Y. 1. Joint grave 3.
OSGOOD, Ronald Arthur
Sergeant (Pilot) 742599,
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Died: 17 July 1940. Age 22.
Killed with brother Eric in an aircraft collision in the north of England.
Attended Portsmouth Grammar School
Son of Albert George and Elizabeth Osgood, of Widley.
Grave Ref. Y. 1. Joint grave 3.
That, to me, is pretty awful. While I suppose it is better that two brothers would die together like that, it has to be terrible for their parents - especially in an accident.
entry no. 1230
Posted at October 23, 2008 09:00 PM