National Post [Toronto]
11 April 2017
Jake Edmiston
For decades, staff at the Dunsfold Aerodrome in
southern England talked of the dead Canadian beneath the runway. Clifford
Davies heard the story when he started working there in the 1960s, 20 years
after the Royal Canadian Engineers built the airfield during the Second World War.
The story, as Davies recalled, was about a Canadian
accidentally killed by a machine during construction of one of the runways.
Under war-time pressure to finish the aerodrome on schedule, the Canadian
serviceman’s comrades kept working, leaving him entombed in the cement.
“It was just general knowledge, really,” Davies said,
adding that he had never seen any evidence of the claim. “It was a very strong
rumour.” […]
