KILLED AT DUNKIRK
SEAMAN FROM MASTERTON [by telegraph OWN correspondent] ! WELLINGTON, Thursday Advice has been received by Mrs. M. Smith, 188 Dixon -Street, Masterton, that her only soil, Leslie Whitfiela Smith, was killed by enemy action in s.s. Aboukir, which was sunk in the English Channel during the Dunkirk evacuation. The loss of the transport was announced by the Admiralty on May 30. . ' > Mr. Smith was born in Opotiki in. 1914, and educated at Rangitumau. and at Wairarapa High School.v- He . Is" New Zealand three years" :tgo to join , the Mercantile Marine.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23718, 26 July 1940, Page 8
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