A DESERT TRAGEDY.
LOSS OF TWO AVIATORS. THEIR SKELETONS RECOVERED. (Sydney Sun Cables.) (Received Feb. 17, 1 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 16. The Daily Mail’s. Basra correspondent. says tiie disappearance of FlightLieutenant Day and Pilot-Officer Stewart, who disappeared while engaged in a flight across the desert last July ,has been solved. Two skeletons were found fifteen miles apart. ft is believed that. Day was injured in a crash and died after Stewart left to look for help. In the intense heat he lost his bearings and wandered away from the railway, for which he was making. The bones were collected and conveyed in an aeroplane to Basra, and given a military funeral.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16663, 17 February 1925, Page 5
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111A DESERT TRAGEDY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16663, 17 February 1925, Page 5
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