Weekly Dispatch: Sunday 12th May 1918

VAIN SEARCH FOR AIRMAN: Despite constant search by civilians, the police, and over a thousand soldiers and the dragging of Basingstoke Canal, no trace has been found of the bodv of David Pinsent, the observer who was killed in the flying accident over West Surrey. On Wednesday at an inquest on Lieut. Lutvens, the pilot, a verdict of Accidental Death was returned.


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Referenced

GRO0163 Devonport: David Hume Pinsent: 1891 – 1918