N.Z. AIRMAN KILLED
-L'ress Asaocialion.)
Commissioned for Special Diity in Canada
(By Telearaph-
INVEECAEGILL, Last Night. Private advice was received in Invercargill this morning that Flying- Officer L. F. J. Taylor# of the Eoyal Air Force, was killed on Saturday when his machine crashed outsi.de the airport at Ottawa. Mr Taylor was the only son of Mr and Mrs W. L. Taylor, of Invercargill, and was a pupil of the Southland Boys' High School from 1923-26. He had a fine Tecord at the school both scholastically and in the isporting field. On leaving school he became an ehgineering student at Canterbury College With tho intenti.on of taking up civil engineering. He then became interested in flying and in 1927 was selected as flying cadet for the New Zealand Air Force. Two years later he was commissioned as Second Lieutenant. He gained promotion and was appointed to the Eoyal Air Force and later saw service in England and at the Singapore base. For some time he wa/s instructor of a bombing squadron in England and only recently was ordered to Canada for special duty.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 51, 23 November 1937, Page 4
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