[repost] the WW1 airman who showed up to the squadron photo after his own funeral

scraped this off a flickr comment thread and an old aviation forum, mashing them together because both are half rotted. the story comes from Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard, who finally published it in 1975 when he was nearly 80. photo's from early 1919, end of the war, a big group shot of his unit ……