MPX5099269: Fifteen army cadets set off from Coventry station for their first real taste of life in the army. The boys aged between 14 and 18, are to spend a week with the Royal Artillery at Sennelager in Germany, Where they will take part in training and field exercises. They belong to the Coventry Cadet Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. The visit will provide the chance for some of the boys to decide whether to make the Army their career. Others said they were going because of the excitement of a trip abroad. While in Germany, the party will divide into two groups - one helping to man guns and the other practising signalling. They set off fully-equipped with combat kits, water bottles strapped to their backs and mess tins ready for cooking in the field. 31st March 1970 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5099278: Accidents Air: Plane hits flats - two die. A plane crashed and exploded on Wednesday night (29.5.63) on the roof of a four-storey block of flats. The two men in the plane - a little flying-club Auster were killed. Nobody else was hurt. The men who died in the crash - at Marlow Court, Manor House Drive, Kilburn - were both Australian dentists. The pilot was Robert Campbell, 30-year-old father of two children, who lived at Handsworth Road, Chingford. His passenger was Peter O'Sullivan-married three months ago - of Maybank Court, Maybank Road, Woodford, May 1963 / Bridgeman Images