KILLED IN AIR CRASH
The Duke Of Kent ON WAY TO ICELAND ON DUTY
(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, August 26. Air Commodore the Duke of Kent was killed on active service when a Sunderland flying-boat crashed in the north of Scotland. The Air Ministry announced yesterday that the Duke of Kent was killed on Tuesday afternoon. The Duke, who was attached to the staff of the Inspector-General of the Royal Air Force,'was proceeding to Iceland on duty. ; . All the crew of the flying-boat also lost their lives.
Mr. Churchill has sent a message of sympathy to the King. Others in tiie plane when it crashed were Lieut. John Lowther, R.N., the Duke's private secretary, the Hon. Michael Scott, the Duke’s A.D.C., and Mr. Hale, the Duke’s valet.
The bodies have been recovered from the wreckage. The Duke’s body will be 1 brought to London later. Messages of sympathy have been received from all over the world.
The Duke of Kent was often in personal danger from enemy bombs, shells, and machinegun fire. He was in a south coast town a week ago when it was bombed and machinegunned. Shells from batteries on the Drench coast fell in Dover when he was visiting the town in November, 1940, and bombs dropped on a Kentish aerodrome four minutes after the Duke of Kent departed during the Battle of
Britain.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 282, 27 August 1942, Page 6
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227KILLED IN AIR CRASH Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 282, 27 August 1942, Page 6
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