We know that a British official photographer was present at the funeral because the photographs of the event are in the AWM’s K series – the K series consists of British official photographs selected and copied by the AWM in the 1920s.
Ian Jackson from the Australian War Memorial writes: The third was from the pilots of 209 Squadron, including Captain Roy Brown, a Canadian in the RAF, who reported on landing that he had shot down the red Fokker triplane that had been chasing his friend Wilfred May. Another was from a separate Australian unit, the 24th Australian Machine Gun Company, which fired at the passing plane with their machine guns.
One was from the 53rd Battery, Australian Field Artillery, who were directly beneath the German Fokker as it chased a Sopwith Camel flown by Lt Wilfred R May of 209 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Within hours of Richthofen’s death, there were three separate claims on ‘the honour’ of having shot him down.
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