In the spring of 1917, at the height of World War I, a young South African was recruited by the Royal Flying Corps to be trained as a fighter pilot on the Western Front. His name was Andrew Weatherby Beauchamp-Proctor. A tiny man, who needed cushions in the cockpit of his SE 5A in order to reach the controls, Beauchamp-Proctor proved so proficient, that by the end of the war, he had become the fifth-ranking ace on the Allied side with 54 kills. After recovering from wounds sustained in September 1918, Beauchamp-Proctor attended an investiture at Buckingham Palace and became the most highly-decorated South African of all time.

In 1922, while practising for an air display, he lost control of his SE 5A and was killed in the resultant crash. He was buried in the village churchyard.

But in 1983, a South African tourist who happened to be visiting Upavon noticed a gravestone in the village churchyard bearing the name of Beauchamp-Proctor. It so happened that he was a native of Mafeking and clearly remembered seeing the pilot's tomb there.

Which grave is the true resting place of Andrew Weatherby Beachamp-Proctor? How can a body be buried in two places 6,000 miles apart and why is an old man in the village of Upavon so upset by the appearance of the young man from Mafeking?