BELIEVED DROWNED
NEW ZEALAND PILOT
(By Telejrrsioh l'i<^-> Association.!
PALMERSTON N., This Day.
Cabled advice has been received by the family of Acting Pilot-Officer Alan G. Whitehead, of the Royal Air Force, that he is believed to have been drowned as a result of an aircraft accident on September 12. Mr. Whitehead spent his boyhood in Palmerston North. He attended ,the Boys' High School, taking his matriculation, and entered the Post and Telegraph Department. He was transferred to Wellington and then joined the Reserve Bank staff, leaving there for England where he arrived ■ last Christmas Eve. He was at a training station in Shropshire and his last letter advised that he had gained his wings.
Mr. Whitehead, who was very fond of cricket and tennis, is the first Palmerston North pilot reported missing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1939, Page 11
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