DEATH AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Pilot Injured 21 Months Ago (P.A.) WELLINGTON, September 28. The death occurred in the Wellington Hospital Irst night after a long illness of Pilot Officer Arthur C. Long, aged 29. Pilot Officer Long received serious injuries to his head and back when a dual control training plane in which he and another officer had been on a training flight crashed in Auckland Harbour on January 6, 1941. Both officers were rescued. After three months in the Auckland Hospital Pilot Officer Long was flown to Wellington and. had been in hospital here ever since. He was a son of the Rev. F. C. Long, general secretary to the New Zealand Anglican Board of Missions in Wellington, and Mrs Long.
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Southland Times, Issue 24861, 29 September 1942, Page 3
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