AIR FORCE FATALITY.
IDENTITY OF VICTIMS
FORMER DANNEVIRKE YOUTH
A cablegram received from London on Saturday stated that three were killed in a collision between Royal Air Force and civil aeroplanes in Hertfordshire. The civil ’plane was a training machine belonging to the Royal Air Force Reserve Scliool at Hatfield, in which Instructor T. Smith, a New Zealander, was taking up a pupil, Mr B. W. Grieves, also a New Zealander, who arrived in England on January 17 and began flying lessons the following day 7. Mr Grieves was a former resident of Auckland and it transpires that Instructor Smith was the fourth son of Mr and Mrs S. T. Paviour Smith, of Dannevirke. He was 30 years of age and a member of the Royal Air Force Reserve.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 24 January 1938, Page 8
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129AIR FORCE FATALITY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 24 January 1938, Page 8
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