The Archive · 1936

TROOP-CARRIER CRASHES

Cairo, July 8.

Three infantry officers and. four non-commissioned ofoers were killed when a Royal Air. Force troop-carrier crashed when landing at the Mersa Matruh aerodrome in the darkness, There were six survivors, but all of them were injured, and had to 7

Captain H. Symands, of the East Kent Regiment: Captain F. E. Barfotd, of the Essex Regiment; Lieut. D. E. Mackintosh, of the Canadian Corps of Signals; Sergeant R. G. Allan; Leading Aircraftsman B. M. Adams; Aircrafisman White; and' Aireraftsman Glassall—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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