KILLED ON SERVICE
AIR FORCE OFFICERS (Por Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Official advice has been received in Wellington that Flying Officer John Roland Brown was killed in an aircraft accident on May 12. Flying Officer Brown, who was serving with the Royal Air Force, was a sop of Squadron-Leader J. T. Brown, who is on interchange in New Zealand. Advice has been received by Mrs. A. Carlson, of Okoroire, from the British Air Ministry that her son, Flying-Officer D. Carlson, suffered multiple injuries while on active service last week. Flying-Officer Carlson was a well-known Patetere and Matamata representative Rugby player a few years ago. He went Home to join the Royal Air Force in 1937. His success was immediate and he was soon appointed to a bombing squadron, for which he later acted as adjutant. On the outbreak of war he applied to join a fighter squadron, and was later promoted to the rank of flying-officer.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20254, 23 May 1940, Page 4
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