Editing Manfred von Richthofen (section)

===Burial===
[[File:Richthofen funeral.jpg|thumb|[[No. 3 Squadron RAAF|No. 3 Squadron AFC]] officers were pallbearers and other ranks from the squadron acted as a guard of honour during the Red Baron's funeral on 22 April 1918.]]

In common with most Entente air officers, No. 3 Squadron AFC's commanding officer Major [[David Valentine Jardine Blake|David Blake]], who was responsible for Richthofen's body, regarded the Red Baron with great respect, and he organised a full [[military funeral]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.burnleyinthegreatwar.info/servedm/marshallgeorgeherberyrev.htm | title=Burnley Roll of Honour Reverend/Chaplain George Herbert Marshall DSO MC }}</ref>

The body was buried in the cemetery at the village of [[Bertangles]], near [[Amiens]], on 22 April 1918. Six of No. 3 Squadron's officers served as [[pallbearer]]s, and a guard of honour from the squadron's [[Other ranks (UK)|other ranks]] fired a salute.{{efn| The official caption of the photograph on the right reads ''The funeral of Rittmeister Baron M. Von Richthofen. Firing party presenting arms as the coffin passes into the cemetery, borne on the shoulders of six pilots of No. 3 Squadron A.F.C. Bertangles, France 22nd April 1918. The Padre is Captain Reverend George H. Marshall, M.A., D.S.O.''}} Entente squadrons stationed nearby presented memorial wreaths, one of which was inscribed with the words, "To Our Gallant and Worthy Foe".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thursdayreview.com/RedBaronVonRichthofen.html|title=A Gallant and Worthy Foe: The Death of the "Red Baron"|website=www.thursdayreview.com|access-date=2017-12-14}}</ref>

[[File:Richthofen funeral.ogg|thumb|left|The funeral of Manfred von Richthofen]]
In the early 1920s, the French authorities created [[Fricourt German war cemetery|a military cemetery]] at [[Fricourt]], in which a large number of German war dead, including Richthofen, were reinterred.{{efn|Among other reasons to protect the graves from vandalism by disgruntled villagers, understandably resentful of former enemies being buried among their own relatives.}} In 1925 von Richthofen's youngest brother, Bolko, recovered the body from Fricourt and took it to Germany. The family's intention was for it to be buried in the Schweidnitz cemetery next to the graves of his father and his brother Lothar von Richthofen, who had been killed in a post-war air crash in 1922.<ref>[http://www.frontflieger.de/4lothar.html "Biography: Lothar Freiherr von Richthofen."] ''Frontflieger.de''. Retrieved: 13 June 2009.</ref> The German Government requested that the body should instead be interred at the [[Invalidenfriedhof Cemetery]] in Berlin, where many German military heroes and past leaders were buried, and the family agreed. Richthofen's body received a [[state funeral]]. Later the [[Nazi Germany|Third Reich]] held a further grandiose memorial ceremony at the site of the grave, erecting a massive new tombstone engraved with the single word: Richthofen.<ref>Burrows 1970, p. 196.</ref> During the [[Cold War]], the Invalidenfriedhof was on the [[Berlin Wall|boundary of the Soviet zone in Berlin]], and the tombstone became damaged by bullets fired at attempted escapees from [[East Germany]]. In 1975, the body was moved to a Richthofen family grave plot at the [[South Cemetery Wiesbaden|Südfriedhof]] in [[Wiesbaden]].<ref>Franks and Bennett 1997, p. 9.</ref>

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File:Fricourt Richthofen grave.JPG|Richthofen's former grave at Fricourt, later Sebastian Paustian, section 4, row 7, grave 1177
Familiengrab von Richthofen - geo.hlipp.de - 35630.jpg|Richthofen family grave at the [[South Cemetery Wiesbaden|Südfriedhof]] in [[Wiesbaden]]
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