TRAGIC CRASH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21765, 3 April 1934, Page 9

TRAGIC CRASH

SYDNEY SUBURB DR. LEE-BROWN KILLED PROMINENT GOLFER COMPANION ALSO DEAD A FATAL TAIL-SPIN By TelcsrrnpJi—Press A s «nrinf ion-• Copyright (deceived April 2, 10.25 p.m.) •SYDNEY. April 2 .\ Mother aeronlane accident occurred to day and resulted in two more deaths. The machine crashed at Brighton-le-Snnds. a suburb of Svdnev. The victims were Dr. Robert K. Lee-Brown, a wellknown practitioner in the city, and Mr. Thomas Fieldscnd. a young business man. who resided in the Maitlnnd district and came to Sydney to purchase an aeroplane. Dr. Lee-Brown, who was a prominent golfer and an enthusiast in aviation, was demonstrating the machine, a new Moth, when it developed a tailspin at an altitude of 500 ft. and crashed on marshy ground in ruins. The two occupants were terribly injured. When rescuers reached the spot Dr. Lee-Brown was still conscious and able to direct first-;)id measures for his companion and himself. The injured men were extricated from the wreckage by a number of youths and Mr. Thomas Johnson, an official of the Civil Aviation Department, who happened to be on the local tennis court. Ambulances then removed them to hospital, where it was found that Mr. Fieldscnd had both legs and his skull fractured, and Dr. Lee-Brown had suffered a broken ankle, broken ribs, internal injuries and an extensive wound on the head. Dr. Lee-Brown died an hour after bis companion. It is recalled that tho doctor's father was drowned a tew years ago in the Greycliffe-Tahiti harbour collision. Dr. Robert K. Lee-Brown was .'SS years of age and had attained considerable prominence as a surgeon in Svdnev, where he was attached to the staff of two large hospitals. His future in the profession was regarded as being particularly bright. An enthusiastic golfer, Dr. LeeBrown twice visited New Zealand as a member of New South Wales golf teams which, competed in the KirkWindeyer Cup contests. In 1928, while a member of the first New South Wales Kirk-Windeycr Cup team (which won the cup), he beat Mr. Sloan Morpeth, then amateur champion of New Zealand. at Miramar. "Wellington. H' s se< '" ond visit to the Dominion was in 1930, when he played for New South Wales in the same „contest at Christchurch. He reached the final of the New South Wales amateur championship in_ 1928 and he had also played in tho United States. Dr. Lee-Brown was a very keen aviator and owned his own aeroplane. His wife, a daughter of Dr. Gordon C'raig, of Sydney, is a pilot. She lias one child, ti girl, aged about eight years. BEACH' ACCIDENT SECOND VICTIM DIES HOW TRAGEDY OCCURRED (Received .April 2. 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 2 Roy (not William) Dunn, aged 19, has died from injuries received when an aeroplane crashed on the beach at Kvans' Head yesterday. Another passenger, Boy W oolley, was killed iu the crash. The pilot was attempting to land on the beach, when tho machine was caught by & strong wind and nosedived.