§ 33. Mr. Thorneasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport whether he can give any information in connection With the pilot-officer, Royal Air Force, who was found dead in a train at Euston on Tuesday night, 1st June; and whether he can say how the man was killed?
§ Mr. Noel-BakerAccording to the information I have so far received, this pilot officer was killed, when he put his head out of the railway carriage window as his train entered a tunnel between the stations of Willesden Junction and Ruston. I take this opportunity of saying how much I deplore this tragic accident and of expressing my deep sympathy with the family of the gallant officer who lost his life.