ALL FOUND DEAD
R.A.F. BOXING PARTY. FATAL CRASH IN SOUTH AFRICA. (Recd This Day, 9.15 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, June 9. The search party found the six bodies of the Royal Air Force boxing party in their crashed plane. The victims will be given a military funeral at Pretoria tomorrow. The searchers suffered forty-eight Hours’ terrible hardships. They lost their way overnight and were redirected from the air at dawn, when badly-needed food was dropped. The men who were aboard the plane, which was wrecked in dense bush when flying from Bulawayo to Pretoria, were Pilot-Officer Moseby. Corporal Boxshall, and Aircraftman Pring, of the Royal Air Force, P. Peters. boxing trainer, and' Captain Koch and Sergeant Leroux, of the South African Air Force. Their ages ranged from 20 to 28 years.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1938, Page 7
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