N.Z. AIRMAN
BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN DROWNED. CABLEGRAM TO FAMILY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.l PALMERSTON N„ This Day. Cabled advice has been received from England by the family of Acting Pilot-Officer Alan G. Whitehead of the Royal Air Force that he is missing and believed to have been drowned as a result of an aircraft accident on September 12. Pilot-Officer Whitehead spent his boyhood in Palmerston North and attended the Boys* High School, passing the matriculation examination. He entered the Post and Telegraph Department here, transferred to Wellington and then changed to the Reserve Bank staff, leaving there for England, where he arrived last Christmas Eve. He was at a training station at Tern Hill, Shropshire His last letter advised that he had gained his wings. Mr Whitehead, who was very fond of cricket and tennis, is the first Palmerston North to be reported missing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 7
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144N.Z. AIRMAN Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 7
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