ANOTHER PLUNKET DEAD
SERVICE WITH AIR FORCE Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 26. It is announced that Acting-Fhght-Lieutenant the Hon. B. S. B. Plunket was Killed on active service at Port Sudan. He was aged 36 and the second-son of the fifth Lord Plunket. former Governor-General of New Zealand, and a brother of the sixth Ijord Plunket who was killed in an air crash in California in February. 1938. He was granted a commission in the R.A.F. soon after the outbreak of war. Four years ago a woman who nursed him during an illness when a boy in New Zealand left him £18,000. Flight-Lieutenant Plunket Js an uncle of the present Lord Plunket. who is 18 years of age.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 281, 27 November 1941, Page 7
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