AVIATOR'S DEATH.
TRAGEDY AT NAVAL FLYING SCHOOL.
LONDON, April 2'A
Paymaster Eustace R. Berne, a flying officer attached to the Naval Aviation School at Eastchurch, was struck and fatally injured by the propeller of an aeroplane at Eastchurch.
Lieutenant Wildman-Lushington was about to ascend, when Berne approached the machine m order to speak to the pilot. The engine started suddenly, and before Berne could step clear he was struck by the propeller. One leg was severed at the thigh, and the other was badly lacerated near the ankle.
Berne was so terribly injured that it was impossible to move him, and he died two hours later.
A few minutes before his death Berne told other flying officers who were standing round him that Tiis great consolation was that he had always done his best to advance the cause of naval aviation. They were greatly impressed by his fortitude.
Berne was one of the best aviators m the naval branch of the Koyal Flying Corps, although 'he had oeen attached to the Eastchurch School only a few months.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13103, 17 June 1913, Page 9
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