TRAGIC DEATH.
LEADING AIR OFFICER. (Rec. 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 24. The Evening News states that Air Vice-Marshal G. H. B. Blount, who was the commander of the air component of the B.E.E. in France, has been killed in an air crash. His plane failed to gain height and hit a tree after taking off. It skimmed the roofs of some houses, stripping off the tiles, and crashed in a garden, smashing in the front of a house and damaging two others. The plane then caught fire.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 280, 25 October 1940, Page 6
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87TRAGIC DEATH. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 280, 25 October 1940, Page 6
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