AIR DISASTER.
j CRASH ON SCOTTISH ISLE. I SEVEN NEW ZEALANDERS. (Rec. 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, June 18. . The bodies of 10 airmen, seven of whom were New Zealanders, who were killed when a Sunderland crashed on the island of St. ICilda, Scotland, were buried at sea from an Adj miralty trawler. The Sunderland was discovered on I the summit of a 800-foot hill with the 110 victims scattered in the vicinity i of the wreckage-. It is officially announced from Wellington that the New Zealanders lost in the crash were: Flying-Officer Richard Dillicar Ferguson (Tmiranga), Flying-Officer William Alexander Thompson (Christchurch), WarrantOfficer John Raymond Lloyd (Wellington), Sergeant Francis Matthew Robertson (Takaka). and Sergeant David John Chubbin Roulston (New Plymouth). Flight-Sergeant Oliver George Reed, an Australian serving with the R.N.Z.A.F., was also a victim.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 212, 19 June 1944, Page 3
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