LANDING ACCIDENT.
NEW ZEALANDER'S DEATH. PILOT-OFFICER G. W. SUTTON. Further details of the flying acciden in which hirs son, Pilot-Officer Gordoi William Sutton, aied 20, was killed o September 18, have been received b; Mr. J. A. Sutton, of Ararimn. The advice received is that Pilot Officer Sutton was drowned after landing accident at the conclusion c an anti-submarine patrol from Pem broke, Wales. The wreckage sank i dee-p water. Pilot-Officer Sutton's bod ■was recovered and he was accorded full military funeral on October 9.
Pilot-Officer Sutton, who was in 193 a prefect at the Mount Albert Grain ■mar School, left for England on a short service commission in the R.A.F. o December 1, 1937, after a year at tli Hobsonville base. He made rapid pre gross, and shortly before the war wa appointed day captain of a flying boai This appointment followed a flight t Malta, when he carried a member of th Air Ministry and a member of th Admiralty on an important mission. H had been engaged for some time in ant) submarine and convoy work.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 263, 7 November 1939, Page 3
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179LANDING ACCIDENT. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 263, 7 November 1939, Page 3
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