PILOT LOSES LIFE
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Friday. When an aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force operating from a North Island air station crashed to-day the pilot lost his life. He was
Pilot-Officer John Howard Sumner, son of Mrs. E. W. Sumner, of Thames Street, Hamilton.
The only son of Mrs. Sumner and the late Major W. C. Sumner, Pilot-Officer Sumner, who was 20 years of age, had been in tli£ Royal New Zealand Air Force for two years. He was born at Rotorua and was .educated at the Rotorua and Hamilton High Schools. Before joining the Air Force he was engaged in farming. He was trained in New Zealand and Canada, and recently returned to this country.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 106, 6 May 1944, Page 7
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