A.I.F. BRIGADIER
Killed In New Guinea (Received October 4, 8.20 p.m I MELBOURNE, October 4
Brigadier R. B. Sutherland. Meluonrne, has been killed in New Guinea. lie served in France in the last war with the Engineers, and joined the Staff Corps when he returned to Australia. In this war. he served with the A.I.F. in the Middle East before going to New Guinea. He was 45 yearn of age. Brigadier Sutherland was killed in a plane accident. With Lieut.-General Sir Edmund Herring, command -r-in-ehief of the Allied land forces in New Guillen, lie was in a plane which was about to take off when the landing gear collapsed. Fragments of the propeller smashed into the cabin and killed Brigadier. Sutherland, but General Herring was uninjured.
The destroyer St. Croix which was torpedoed with 140 missing was one. of seven United Stales destroyers which were turned over to tile Canadian Navy in the exchange of destroyers and naval bases before the United States entered the war. She is the 13th Canadian vessel lost.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 8, 5 October 1943, Page 5
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173A.I.F. BRIGADIER Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 8, 5 October 1943, Page 5
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