I seem to be drawn to charismatic men - with even just a remote association with Buffalo Bill !! ... here's another one !! thought this maybe of interest !! On August 11 1913, the British garrison town of Aldershot witnessed a most extraordinary spectacle; the funeral of a former cowboy from Iowa who, despite being American and a civilian, was buried with full military honours, escorted to his last resting place by the pipers of the Black Watch and an enormous crowd of mourners. The coffin was taken to the military cemetery on a gun carriage drawn by six black horses. The cortege was a mile long. One hundred thousand people lined the route, many of whom had come from London for the occasion and waited there since dawn. The King himself, George V, had sent the deceased's widow a personal telegram expressing his grief. http://www.sfcody.org.uk/
Grave of Samuel Franklin Cody in the Aldershot Military Cemetery. In Loving Memory of SAMUEL FRANKLIN CODY Aviator and inventor who was killed while flying over Laffan's Plain on the 7th August 1913. Also of LELA MARIE his wife died 5th Feb 1939. aged 87 Adjacent to Cody's own grave marker is a memorial to his only son, Samuel Franklin Leslie Cody, (father of Sam born 1913 and grandfather to S.F. 'Colin' Cody) who joined the Royal Flying Corps and 'fell in action fighting four enemy machines' in 1917. In Memory of Second Lieutenant SAMUEL FRANKLYN LESLIE CODY 41st Sqdn., Royal Flying Corps and , General List who died age 21 on 23 January 1917 Son of Lela M. Cody, of Vale Croft, Ash Vale, Surrey and the late aircraft pioneer, Samuel F. Cody; husband of Maude H. Cody, of 'Notre Dame', Church Road, Aldershot, Surrey. Remembered with honour PERTH CEMETERY (CHINA WALL)
