THREE MEN KILLED
IN AIRCRAFT CRASH. A NORTH ISLAND TRAGEDY (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. When an aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force crashed after the take-off on a North Island air station shortly after 5 p.m. on Thursday, three occupants lost their lives. The personnel involved were: Squadron Leader Wilfred Maurice Chalk Williams, D.F.C. (wife, Mrs Williams, Ranfurly Street, Feilding). Leading Aircraftman Harold Joseph Beale (wife, Mrs B. E. Beale, Eldon Road. Mount Eden, Auckland). Acting Corporal Wilfred Nixon Gibbens (father, Mr W. W. Gibbons, York Street, Parnell, Auckland). Squadron Leader Williams was the son of the Rev Canon W. G. Williams, Napier Terrace, Napier.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 July 1943, Page 2
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