GALLANT SACRIFICE
NEW ZEALAND AIRMAN
(From "The Post's" Representative.)
LONDON, June 19,
His decision to head his aeroplane for open country rather than crash in a residential district cost Flight Lieutenant C. A. Washer (New Plymouth) his life. When the aircraft got into difficulties, the New Zealander told his crew to jump by parachute. By the time open country was reached it was too late for him to follow.
Many tributes have been paid to him at Southampton, where he was well known. A memorial service was held at Almondsbury.
Flight Lieutenant Washer, who was 29, joined the R.A.F. about ten years ago, and served in England and Malta for about four years, retiring with the rank of. flight lieutenant. He then joined the Bristol Aeroplane Company. Limited, and for three years was an instruttor at the Bristol Flying School, later becoming one of the company's test pilots.
The "Western Daily Express" said: "As an exponent of flying technique he was a brilliant pilot, and his work had attracted attention among expert flyers in Britain and abroad." *
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 10
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