Author of the internationally recited aviation sonnet ‘High Flight’ Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee Jr, was buried on 13 December 1941 at @CWGC Holy Cross, Cemetery, Scopwick , near RAF Digby, Lincolnshire. He died on 11 Dec 41, aged 19. High Flight John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1922 - 1941) 'Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung. I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace. Where never lark, or even eagle flew — And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.