Funeral details announced for Air Corps crash victims
The funeral arrangements for the two Air Corps crew members who were killed after their aircraft crashed in Co Galway on Monday have been announced.
The remains of Captain Derek Furniss and Cadet David Jevens will arrive from Galway to Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, Co Dublin this evening at approximately 8pm.
There will be a prayer service in the Garrison Church on their arrival, to be attended by the Furniss and Jevens families, the Minister for Defence Mr Willie O’Dea TD, Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Dermot Earley and General Officer Commanding the Air Corps, Brigadier General Ralph James along with many friends and colleagues of the two men.
Prior to the service, the Minister for Defence and Chief of Staff will meet the families privately to express their sympathies.
The remains of both Furniss and Jevens will rest overnight, under escort, at the Garrison Church. Both crew men will be buried with full military honours.
Furniss’s remains will be brought to his home in Rathfarnam tomorrow (house private until 5pm).
A memorial Service will take place at 12pm on Saturday, October 17 at St John the Evangelist Church, Ballinteer Road, Dublin. His burial will take place afterwards at Kilmashogue Cemetery, Edmonstown Road, Co Dublin.
Jevens’s remains will be brought to his home tomorrow in Glynn, Co Wexford (house private until 3pm).
A requiem Mass will take place at 11am on Friday, October 16 at St Alphonsus Church, Barntown, Co. Wexford. The burial will take place afterwards in the church grounds.
Members of the public may attend the funeral masses, but will not have access to Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel tonight.
