AIRMEN KILLED
SOUTH ISLAND CRASH DUAL FLYING TRAINING (By Telerrapti —press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday When a Royal New Zealand Air Force Harvard aircraft from Wigram crashed at Springbanks. near Oust, at tw 1 • o'clock yesterday afternoon, while on a dual flying training flight the two occupants were killed. They are:— , Pilot-Officer John Vesey Hamilton Robinson (pilot), whose mother is Mrs F. V. Robinson, of Lake Timaru, Blenheim. Leading-Aircraftman Leonard John Cunningham (pupil under training), whose mother is Mrs J. A. Cunningham, of Balclutha. Pilot-Officer Robinson was 21 years of age and was .bom in Christchurch and educated at the Waihi Preparatory School and Christ’s College. He was a member of the college first Rugby fifteen, 1940, and was a champion swimmer as well as taking a prominent part in other sports. On completion of his training in the Air Force he was commissioned and retained in New Zealand as an instructor. Leading-Aircraftman Cunningham, who was 19 years of age, was educated at the South Otago High School and was a porter before he graduated to the Royal New Zealand Air Force from the Air Training Corps in August, 1943.
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Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22508, 17 November 1944, Page 2
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