Aviator accidentally killed

Lieut. Masters, Royal Air Force, only son of Mr. Charles Masters, motor agent, Raunds, on Wednesday collided with another aeroplane, when a strap of his machine broke and he fell a distance of 2,000 feet and was killed instantaneously. Lieut. Masters was in training in Lincolnshire, and expected to go to France very shortly. He was 20 years old.

Funeral - The late Lieut. Albert Charles Masters, of the Royal Air Force, who was killed on May 1st through colliding with another aeroplane, was buried on Sunday afternoon at Raunds. Deceased who was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Masters of Raunds, was 19 years of age. The service was held at the Wesleyan church. The funeral cortege was headed by a party of the Rushden Volunteers, under Regimental Sergt. Major Asplin, D.C.M. and the Raunds Temperance Band. The band played “Abide with me” and after the committal the Volunteers fired three volleys over the grave, and between the volleys a general salute was sounded, the “Last Post” being subsequently played by Sergt. Hart, Corpl. Campion, and Bugler Neville, of the Rushden K.R.R. Cadets. The firing party numbered 20, under Lieut. (acting Capt.) G. R. Turner, Second Lieut. F. Sargent, C.S.M. Beardsmore and Co.Qmr. Sergt. G. Jolley.