FLAGS AT HALF-MAST
DUKE OF KENT'S FUNERAL (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. Instructions have been issued by the noting Prime Minister, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, that flags shall be flown at half-mast an all Government buildings throughout the Dominion to*morro,w on the occason of the Duke of Kent's funeral. Mr. Sullivan has also invited local authorities and citizens generally where possible to do likewise.
New Zealand air headquarters has received ndv'ce from the Air Ministry, London, that the second pilot of the Duke of Kent’s plane, who was also killed in the crash, was Temporary Flight Sergeant Edward Francis Blackloek. whose mother is Mrs. M. C. Blackloek. Dunedin. Flight Sergeant Blackloek was born in Dunedin in 3912, and at the time of his enlistment was employed by the New Zealand Government railways.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20875, 29 August 1942, Page 5
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132FLAGS AT HALF-MAST Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20875, 29 August 1942, Page 5
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