FLYING-BOATS' TRIP
VISIT TO MELBOURNE A fcIEW ZEALAND OFFICER BASRA, Sept. 5 The three flying boats chosen to represent the Royal Air Force at the Melbourne Centenary hare started for Australia. i ~ Hf The Wellington correspondent of the New Zealand Herald states:—One ot the officers now on the way to Melbourne in one of the Rogal Air Force flying boats is Flying-Officer J. W. Burgess, son of Captain J. W. Burgess, of the Government steamer Matai. Flying-Officer Burgess was educated at the Terrace Normal School and at Wellington College. He joined the Royal Air Force three and a-half years ago. . After spending a year at No. 5 Flying Training School at Sealand Surrey, Mr Burgess went to a squadron stationed at Kenley aorodMme near London Then he was posted to Calsliot lor » Six months' flyins boat course and left England on February 2, 19-w, to join No. 203 (Flying; Boat) Squadron at Basra, Irak. j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21899, 7 September 1934, Page 11
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