MILITARY FUNERAL
Victims Of Flying Boat
Crash
PA WELLINGTON, Dec. 13. Seven New Zealand airmen who were killed in a Catalina flying boat accident off Upolu Island yesterday were buried with full military honours at Magiagi Cemetery, Apia, at 8 a.m. today. Advice received in Wellihgton from the High Conimissioner for Western Samoa said that services were conducted by an Anglican minister, the Rev. Whonsbon Aston, and a Roman Catholic priest, the Rev. Father Bourke. The airmen were buried in the returned servicemen’s section of the cemetery. Returned servicemen and police force members provided pall bearers and a firing party.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27572, 14 December 1950, Page 6
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100MILITARY FUNERAL Otago Daily Times, Issue 27572, 14 December 1950, Page 6
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