NEW ZEALANDER KILLED IN SWISS ALPS
(Special Correspondent.)
Received Wednesday, 11. oO p.m. LOXDOX, August 28. While climbing in Bwit/.erland witn the Oxford I'niversity Mimntaineeriug Club, Flight Lieut. W. (Pat; Esquilant, A.F.C., from Dune.din, was killed. Flight Lieut. .M. K. Conway, from Christchurch, suffered a fractureu pelvis. No details are at present available. Flight T/ieut. Esquilant, who was a compelent climber and member of the Xew Zealand Alpine Club and Britisti j section of fhe Swiss Alpine Club, recently joined the staff of the historieaL | section of R.N.Z.A.F. Headquarte.rs, j London. Flight Lieut. Conway is a i former sc.hool teacher who is taking a I rehabilitation c.ourse at Oxford. Both I joined the party in Hvvitzerland. Hquadron Leader F. A. Andrews, | D.F.C.. of Auckland, head of the his- i torieal section has gone to Switzerland | to atfe.ud Ihe funeral and ascertain the j i'acts. j
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Chronicle (Levin), 29 August 1946, Page 5
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