TRAGIC CRASH.
FATHER’S HOMECOMING
LONDON, Feb. 13.
Mr Baigent, whose wife and two children were killed when the Royal Air Force bomber crashed into the flat where she was living, arrived at the ruined home shortly after the removal of the bodies. His wife would have been 23 to-day.
Four persons were killed when a singleseater Royal Air Force fighter stalled in dense fog over Brighton, circled the housetop, struck and demolished a greenhouse and dived across a garden, losing a wheel and embedding itself in a bouse containing four flats. The petrol tank exploded and set fire to the ’plane and the building, firemen worked for hours before they were able to extricate the bodies of the airman. Sergeant William Bruen, and Mrs R L Baigent, who was cooking lunch for her boy and girl, who were playing with their toys. .Mrs Baigcnt’s husband was absent Ten other occupants of the bouse wore rescued uinjured. Flames precluded the saving of the Baigcnts.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 63, 14 February 1939, Page 7
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