PILOT-OFFICER’S DEATH.
WANGANUI COLLEGE OLD BOY. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Feb. 21. After a severe injury in a flying accident, Pilot-Officer Robin 1. Delamore, aged 19, of Auckland, died in hospital at Letchworth (Hertfordshire, England) on Sunday night. The son of Mr and Mrs A. Delamore, of Kuala Lumpur (Malaya), ho was an old boy of Wanganui College, being brought up by his grandmother, Mrs Frank Rhodes, who was advised by cablegram of his death. Since the declaration of war, he had been engaged on patrol duty over the North Sea and was one of the most junior officers in the Royal Air 1< orce. On leaving college, he secured nomination for the air training school at Cranwell (England), but as the only New Zealand nomination for 1938 was unavailable lie nominated Malaya as his birthplace and won nomination in competition with other Crow-n Colony candidates.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 72, 22 February 1940, Page 8
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