DEATH OF PILOT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 50, 29 January 1937, Page 2

DEATH OF PILOT.

ENGLISH AIR CRASH. , FORMER NEW ZEALANDER. The pilot of the aeroplane, lost in the Irisk Channel .during a gale last Friday, who was drowned, was a New Zealander, Captain Eric G. Stewart, whose mother, Mrs Duncan Stewart, lives at Kaikohe. ~ His father is dead. His sister;. Miss K.: Stewart, is a nurse attached to. the Child Welfare Department at Auckland. Captain Stewart left the Whangarei. District High ijcliool about two years before the Great War to enter the Public Trust Office at Wellington. As soon as war broke out he enlisted, and after a period of training, went with his regiment to Samoa. From there he went to Egypt and France. He was wounded in France, but after a period in an Engliscli hospital he was able to return to the front, where he remained until the close of the war. By then he had reached the rank of second lieutenant. When lie returned to New Zealand he went farming at Kaikohe, but army life had made him restless and he joined the Royal Air Force at Cairo about two years alter the war. In due time he became a captain. Captain Stewart left the Royal Air Force to join Imperial Airways, with whom lie served lor four years, flying between Cairo and Bagdad. in recent years he flew for different airways in England, and at the close of last year he was granted a master pilot's certificate. He leaves a wife and a baby.