The Archive · 1937

Birth of Child in Crash

Ostend, Nov. 17.

pathetic feature of the air tragedy, near the Ostend aerodrome last night, in which the Grand Duke von Hesse and four members of his family. were killed on their way from Frankfort to London, was the

during the crash. The bodies of birth of a child to the Grand Duchess mother and child are now together in a local hospital lying

All eleven occupants of the machine, wile omitted Brussels because of the fox and went direct to Ostend, met their death in the disaster. They comprised three members of the crew and eight passengers, seven of whom were members of the von Hesse party, namely: the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess von Hesse, Dowager Grand Duchess von Hesse, Ludwig and Aldenbaek von Hesse, children Of the Prince; Baron Riedesel, friend of the Von Hesse family; and Madame Hahn, lady-in-waiting to the Grand

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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