AVIATOR’S DEATH
A LLE GE D MANS L A U GIIT ER. fBY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received June 19, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, June IS. The aviator. Captain Nicholas Compel', was found unconscious, at Hythe. He was taken to hospital, where he died, as the result of a fracture of the base of the skull. The police state that a. man will be charged with manslaughter. Captain Compel' designed the Com-per-Swift machine,- which held the England-Australia record' in 19:11.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 June 1939, Page 7
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