PILOT’S DEATH
Crash On Active Service (Bj' Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, .March 15. Advice has been received in Auckland, that Arthur James Skidmore, Royal Air Force pilot, Christchurch, lost bis life in an aeroplane crash while on active service in .England on March 13. A son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Skidmore, Papanui, Christchurch, Pilot Officer 'Skidmore was one of a party of 18 men who left New Zealand on April 6, 1938, to take up it short service commission with the R.A.F. in England. Educated at Belfast School and at Christchurch Technical College, Pilot Officer Skidmore, who was 25, bad some flying experience in Canterbury before he left New Zealand. It is understood he has been engaged in night flying.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 147, 16 March 1940, Page 13
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121PILOT’S DEATH Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 147, 16 March 1940, Page 13
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