Air Fatality: Pilot and Civilian Observer Killed: Whilst being tested over Surrey last evening an aeroplane collapsed mid-air and fell to earth in five sections. The pilot, Lieutenant Lionel Derek Francis Lutyens, Royal Air Force, and a civilian observer, Mr. David Hugh Pensent (sic), were killed. Mr. Pensent’a body, which is believed to have fallen into a lake, has not yet been recovered.
[see also Dundee Evening Telegraph: Thursday 9th May 1918 and several other papers]
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Referenced
GRO0163 Devonport: David Hume Pinsent: 1891 – 1918