FRENCH SLOOP’S MISSION
AUCKLAND, This Day (P.A).—The body of the Free French aviator, Capitaine de Corvette Gilbert, who was killed in a flying accident in Auckland in June, 1942, will be taken aboard the French, sloop Francis Garnier tomorrow afternoon. A brief service will be held in St Patrick’s Cathedral, after Which the body will be taken on a gun carriage to Admiralty steps, where there will be' a combined French and New Zealand guard of honour. The Francis Garnier will leave for Tahiti at dawn on Friday.
Captain Gilbert and all aboard the American Flying Fortress were killed while taking off from Auckland in the course of a secret irans-Pacific flight.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 September 1949, Page 4
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