AIR FATALITY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24772, 24 November 1941, Page 4

AIR FATALITY

DUNEDIN MAN'S DEATH NOTED RADIO EXPERT WARTIME' RESEARCH WORKER Advice that their second son, Mr George Gavin Samson, aged 34,. has been killed in an aircraft accident " somewhere in England," was received vesterday by Mr and Mrs James M. Samson, of 16 Norfolk street,,St. Clair. For some time past Mr Samson has been a member of the research department of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production. .. . ■ . „. . Educated at the Otagjft Boys High School, and a gradual ' College, Mr Samson was a noted amateur radio enthusiast. In. 1930 he mad«

a trip to the Antarctic with the Byrd expedition as a radio operator, and h« was the first New Zealander to win the British Empire Radio * Union Cup, which he was awarded in 1933. Six years ago Mr Samson left New Zealand to take up an appointment as a radio engineer with Standard Telephones and Cables. Ltd.. in London. The company sent him tb South Africa to supervise the installation of several npw radio stations. On returning to England just before the outbreak of war he was given charge, of the firm's television department. When the-war began Mr Samson was placed on the list of men in reserved occupations, but recently he severed his connections with his civil emplovment to join the or£pnis=>tion of the .Ministry of-Aircraft Production. ~.. .;,„„,/.,J,i' ~■ A brother of Mr Samson. Minor J. M. Samson, who left with the third Echelon of the 2nd N.Z.E.F.. is attached to general staff headquarters in the Middle East.