SOUTHLAND AIRMAN
KILLED IN FLYING ACCIDENT IN BRITAIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ■INVERCARGILL, December 10. Official advice has been received of the death in an aircraft accident in Britain of Sergeant Pilot J. B. Courtis, son of Mr A. H. Courtis, Invercargill. The advice is contained in a cablegram from the Records Department' of (he Royal Air Force. It is stated that Sergeant Pilot Courtis was flying a plane which crashed on hills during bad weather. Sergeant Pilot Courtis received his preliminary flying training with the Southland Aero Club, and transferred from the reserve of pilots to the Royal New. Zealand Air Force shortly m ler ° utb i’ e£ >k of war. He passed thiough the Levin and the Taieri training schools and gained his wings at Wigram. °
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1940, Page 4
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