ROYAL FUNERAL

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 203, 28 August 1942, Page 3

ROYAL FUNERAL

LATE DUKE OF KENT

Duke Of Windsor Unable To Travel From Bahamas U.P.A. and British Wireless Rec. noon. LONDON, Aug. 27. The King has expressed the definite wish that the funeral of the Duke of Kent shall take place in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, r#£>orts British Official Wireless.

A statement issued at Buckingham Palace to-night says the King and Queen received with great sorrow the news of the death of the King's beloved brother. A message from Nassau, the Bahamas, states that the Duke of Windsor is not going to England to attend his brother's funeral. The removal of the bodies across the rugged and pathless moorland in Scotland, where the Sunderland flying boat crashed, was a task requiring considerable organisation. It was done by soldiers, airmen, farmers and shepherds. The Duke and two others were thrown clear of the Sunderland. They were apparently killed instantly. The Air Ministry said the Sunderland was a Coastal Command machine from an operational station. Its crew and passengers w;ere all on active service. A civil inquiry is therefore unlikely. The official casualty list of the crash names 14 killed, including Wing-Commander T. L. Moseley, of the Royal Air Force, who was first pilot, Sergeant E. F. Blacklock, of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, Flight-Lieutenant F. M. Goyen, of the Royal Air Force, an Australian, who was the captain. Flight-Sergeant Jack is classified as seriously injured. He was found three miles from the crash, wandering in a semi-dazed condition. FLAGS AT HALF-MAST

DUKE OF KENT'S FUNERAL

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. Instructions have been issued by the acting-Prime Minister, Mr. Sullivan, that flags shall be flown at halfmast on all Government buildings throughout the Dominion to-morrow on the occasion of the Duke of Kent's funeral. Mr. Sullivan also invited local authorities and citizens generally, where possible, to do likewise.