AIRMAN KILLED
NEW ZEALAND PILOT
CRASH NEAR OTTAWA BEGAN FLYING IN DOMINION [ I3V TF.r.KGKAIMl —IMtHSS ASSOCIATION] IXVERCATK; 11,!;, Monday Private advice? was received in Invereargill this morning that Flying-Officer L. F. J. Taylor, of the Royal Air Force, was killed on Saturday when his machine crashed outside the airport at Ottawa. Mr. Taylor, who was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Taylor, of Invcrcargill, was a pupil of the Southland .1 Joys' High School from 192:5 to 192(3. lie had a fine record at school, both scholastic;! Ily and in the sporting field. On leaving school he became an engineering student at Canterbury Lniversity College with the intention of taking up civil engineering. He then became interested in flying and in 1927 was selected as a flying cadet for the New Zealand Air Force. Two years later lie was commissioned as a second lieutenant. He gained promotion and was appointed to the Royal Air Force.
Mr. Taylor later saw service in England and at the Singapore base. For some time he was instructor of a bombing squadron in England, and only recently was ordered to Canada for special duty.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22893, 23 November 1937, Page 12
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