BODIES RECOVERED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20874, 28 August 1942, Page 3

BODIES RECOVERED

CRASHED FLYING BOAT DUKE’S LAST TRIP HIT MOUNTAIN IN MIST (9 a.m.) ’ LONDON, Aug. 27. The T uke of Kent’s Sunderland flying boat crashed in one of the Loneliest parts of the highlands and the wreckage was only found aftei nearly two hours’ search, although the eye-witnesses were only a mile distant. Fragments of the fuselage were widely scattered over the mountain into which the Sunderland crashed in .the mist. The removal of the bodies across the rugged, pathless moorland was a task requiring considerable organisation, and i.t was done by soldiers, airi man. farmers, and shepherds. . The Duke of Kent and two others were thrown clear of the Sunderland (lying boat and they were apparently killed instantly. An Air Ministry official stated that the Sunderland was a Coastal Command machine from an operational station. Its crew and passengers were all members of the services, and therefore a civil inquiry was unlikely. The official casualty list of the crash names 14 killed, including WingCommander T. L- Moseley, R.A.F.. who was the first pilot, Sergeant E. F. Blacklock, Royal New Zealand Ail Force, second pilot, and FlightLieutenant F. M. Goyen, Royal Air Force, an Australian, who was captain of the flying boat. Flight Sergeant Jack, the sole survivor of the crash, has been classified as seriously injured. A statement issued from Buckingham Palace .to-night' states .that the King and Queen received with great sorrow the news of the death on active service of the Duke of Kent His Majesty’s beloved brother. A report from Nassau says that the Duke of Windsor is not going to England to attend the Duke of Kent’s funeral. The King has expressed a definite ,vish that the funeral of the Duke of Xent shall take place in St. George’s Ehapel, Windsor. MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day The Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, has sent a .telegram conveying to Her Majesty Queen Mary the ■,ymp.a.thy of the Government and people of. New Zealand in the tragic loss of her son, the Duke of Kent. The Consul-General for Poland. Count Wodzicki, has forwarded a message to the Acting-Prime Minister. the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, expressing personally on behalf of the Polish Government, the people and himseli .heir sorrow and deep sympathy ir: the sad loss of the Duke of Kent. “On account of a fortnight’s visii to Poland a few years previous tc this war, the opening of the Polisi Hearth in London in 1940, and also through some of his visits to units of the Polish Army, Air Force, and Navy in Britain, His Royal Highness is well known to many of the Polish people and they will grieve at his oss,” the message stated.