TRAGIC END
AIRMAN WITH BRILLIANT WAR RECORD. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) ADELAIDE, June 11. Squadron Leader’ R. W. Bungey, D.F.C., was found dead on a beach here with a bullet wound in his head: Alongside his body in a pusher was his infant son, also shot in the head. The child is not expected to live. Squadron Leader Bungey, who had a brilliant war record, and was in command of an Australian fighter squadron attached to the R.A.F., returned from service in the Middle East only a few weeks ago. Shortly after his return his wife, an English girl whom he married in 1941, died. She was only 22 years of age and had been in poor health for some time.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430612.2.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1943, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
121TRAGIC END Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1943, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in