KILLED IN AIR RAID
SISTERS OF HAWKE’S BAY RESIDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NAPIER. October 8. Information that his two sisters had been killed in a German raid on London has been received by Mr R. Sunderland, Undercliff, Havelock North. They were Misses Joan and Ruth Sunderland, who visited New Zealand some years ago. According to cabled information, they were living in a flat in Warwick Square, London, and were apparently sleeping in a basement at the time of the raid. The report states that a direct hit was secured by a bomb and, m company with a friend, Miss Shelagh Fraser, both were killed, presumably by the concussion. Misses Sunderland had been engaged in canteen work in London, and Miss Fraser was doing A.R.P. work.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 October 1940, Page 8
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