NEW ZEALAND PILOT'S DEATH
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, March 15.
Advice has been received in Auckland that Arthur James Skidmore, Royal Air Force pilot, diristchurch, lpst his life in an aeroplane crash while on active service in England oAr March 13. A son, of Mr. and Mrs. W. H* Skidmofre, Papanui, Christchurcb,, PilotOfficer Skidmore was one of a party of 18 men who left New-Zealand on April 6, 1938, to take up a short service commission with the R.A.F. in England. Educated at Belfast School and at Christchurch College, Pilot-Officer ■Skidniore, who was 25, had some flying experience in Canterbury before he left New Zealand. It is understood he had been, engaged in night flying.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1940, Page 8
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