R.A.A.F. Plane Crashes.
AT URANQUINTY FLYING SCHOOL TWO AIRMAN LOSE LIVES.
Two young airmen, Flying Officer Gordon Wilson Keig, of St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, and Leading Air-craftman Wireless Operator James Baker Monfries, aged 22 years, of The Grange, South Australia, lost their lives on Wednesday night as the result of an air crash at No. 5 S.F.T.S., Uranquinty. Flying Officer Keig was piloting the plane in exercises over the Uranquinty aerodrome shortly after 8 o'clock, when the aircraft was seen to lose speed. It crashed on an unoccupied hut and was wrecked. Flying Officer Keig was killed instantly, and Leading Aircraftman Monfries was injured very seriously. He was removed by Air Force Ambulance to the R.A.A.F. hospital, Forest Hill, but died from his injuries about 1¾ hours after admission. The funerals of the two airmen will take place in Wagga to-morrow. The funeral of Flying Officer Keig will move from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church at 12 noon, for the Wagga cemetery, while that of Leading Air-craftman Monfries will leave St. John's Church of England at 10 45 a.m., also for the Wagga cemetery.
Daily Advertiser, Wagga Wagga, N.S.W.
Friday, 23rd January, 1942, Page 2.
AT URANQUINTY FLYING SCHOOL TWO AIRMAN LOSE LIVES.
Two young airmen, Flying Officer Gordon Wilson Keig, of St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, and Leading Air-craftman Wireless Operator James Baker Monfries, aged 22 years, of The Grange, South Australia, lost their lives on Wednesday night as the result of an air crash at No. 5 S.F.T.S., Uranquinty. Flying Officer Keig was piloting the plane in exercises over the Uranquinty aerodrome shortly after 8 o'clock, when the aircraft was seen to lose speed. It crashed on an unoccupied hut and was wrecked. Flying Officer Keig was killed instantly, and Leading Aircraftman Monfries was injured very seriously. He was removed by Air Force Ambulance to the R.A.A.F. hospital, Forest Hill, but died from his injuries about 1¾ hours after admission. The funerals of the two airmen will take place in Wagga to-morrow. The funeral of Flying Officer Keig will move from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church at 12 noon, for the Wagga cemetery, while that of Leading Air-craftman Monfries will leave St. John's Church of England at 10 45 a.m., also for the Wagga cemetery.
Daily Advertiser, Wagga Wagga, N.S.W.
Friday, 23rd January, 1942, Page 2.
R.A.A.F. Plane Crashes.
AT URANQUINTY FLYING SCHOOL TWO AIRMAN LOSE LIVES.
Two young airmen, Flying Officer Gordon Wilson Keig, of St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, and Leading Air-craftman Wireless Operator James Baker Monfries, aged 22 years, of The Grange, South Australia, lost their lives on Wednesday night as the result of an air crash at No. 5 S.F.T.S., Uranquinty. Flying Officer Keig was piloting the plane in exercises over the Uranquinty aerodrome shortly after 8 o'clock, when the aircraft was seen to lose speed. It crashed on an unoccupied hut and was wrecked. Flying Officer Keig was killed instantly, and Leading Aircraftman Monfries was injured very seriously. He was removed by Air Force Ambulance to the R.A.A.F. hospital, Forest Hill, but died from his injuries about 1¾ hours after admission. The funerals of the two airmen will take place in Wagga to-morrow. The funeral of Flying Officer Keig will move from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church at 12 noon, for the Wagga cemetery, while that of Leading Air-craftman Monfries will leave St. John's Church of England at 10 45 a.m., also for the Wagga cemetery.
Daily Advertiser, Wagga Wagga, N.S.W.
Friday, 23rd January, 1942, Page 2.
AT URANQUINTY FLYING SCHOOL TWO AIRMAN LOSE LIVES.
Two young airmen, Flying Officer Gordon Wilson Keig, of St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, and Leading Air-craftman Wireless Operator James Baker Monfries, aged 22 years, of The Grange, South Australia, lost their lives on Wednesday night as the result of an air crash at No. 5 S.F.T.S., Uranquinty. Flying Officer Keig was piloting the plane in exercises over the Uranquinty aerodrome shortly after 8 o'clock, when the aircraft was seen to lose speed. It crashed on an unoccupied hut and was wrecked. Flying Officer Keig was killed instantly, and Leading Aircraftman Monfries was injured very seriously. He was removed by Air Force Ambulance to the R.A.A.F. hospital, Forest Hill, but died from his injuries about 1¾ hours after admission. The funerals of the two airmen will take place in Wagga to-morrow. The funeral of Flying Officer Keig will move from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church at 12 noon, for the Wagga cemetery, while that of Leading Air-craftman Monfries will leave St. John's Church of England at 10 45 a.m., also for the Wagga cemetery.
Daily Advertiser, Wagga Wagga, N.S.W.
Friday, 23rd January, 1942, Page 2.
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