Dave,
From my 'For Your Tomorrow - A record of New Zealanders who have died while serving with the RNZAF and Allied Air Services since 1915 (Volume One: Fates 1915-1942)':
Wed 4 Jan 1933
England
Test flight Service trials
111 Squadron, RAF (Hornchurch, Essex - Fighting Area, Air Defence of Great Britain)
Bristol Bulldog IIIA ‘R5’ - three of the Squadron’s pilots arrived at the RAF Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, to collect prototype Bristol, Gloster, and Vickers fighters for trials at Hornchurch. Flying back to base they dived and pulled up into a Prince of Wales feather manœuvre, during which the Bulldog disintegrated and crashed at Norton Heath, near Chipping Ongar, killing the pilot. R5 was a manufacturer’s designation, no RAF serial having been allocated.
Pilot: Fg Off John Laurance ARMSTRONG, RAF - Age 26.
And Amendments section of Vol Three (Biographies & Appendices):
p58; ARMSTRONG, J L – the crash occurred on Miss Marriage’s farm. Buried at Hornchurch, but in 1934 exhumed and removed to New Zealand for burial at Mangatera, Dannevirke.
Errol
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