T. EYRE MACKLIN
LONDON, August 4,
Rec. 9.30 am
The death is reported of Thomas Eyre Macklin, R.8.A., painter and sculptor., His works include the Auckland War Memorial.
AIR COMMODORE ORLEBAR Rec. 11 a.m. LONDON, August 4,
Air Commodore A. H. Orlebar, aged 46, former holder of the world's air
speed record is dead, jt Was announced last March that he had been appointed Deputy Chief of Combined Operations under Lord Mountbatten. He had been ill some weeks.
Air Commodore Orlebar captained and trained the Schneider Cup teams in 1929 and 1931. In 1929 he establishedthe; world speed record of 357.7 m.p.h. He was appointed Director of Flying Training in 1940. He went from the infantry to the Royal Flying "Corps in 1916, and four years later was attached to the staff of the Aeroplane Experimental Establishment at Martlestiam Heath. He received the Air Force Cross in 1921 for peacetime services to aviation. He recently relinquished the rank of Acting Air Vice Marshal.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1943, Page 6
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T. EYRE MACKLIN
Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1943, Page 6
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