PROSAIC DEATH

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 10

PROSAIC DEATH

AIR PILOT ON LEAVE

(By Air Mail, from "The Post's" London Representative.) LONDON, December 19. Returning to his unit-after six days' special leave awarded for the part he played in the recent successful flight over Heligoland, Leading Aircraftman John Nay lor, aged 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Naylor, of Mansfield, Marlow, Bucks, was killed in a motor accident in Essex. He and another man were driving in a private car along Epping New Road, Buckhurst Hill, when the car came into collision with a motorlorry. Young Naylor had with him in the car Wireless Operator J. H. Langridge (Gisbprne), who was seriously hurt but not dangerously so. He is in hospital. Langridge, too, had taken part in several air raids' and each time he returned without so much as a scratch. Naylor was a member of the crew of the plane which was damagedl in the Heligoland raid, but through skilful airmanship reached its base safely. He was not hit, and for the exploit he and his companion were awarded special leave, which he spent at his home at Marlow. He took home several pieces of German shrapnel" that had riddled his plane. His mother went with him to London, and it was after she had left him and he was motoring to his unit that he was killed.