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[edit]Clock, memorial
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20 Squadron RNZAF |
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Clock, memorial |
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| Object type | clock | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Memorial clock mounted in wooden propeller wing-tip with RNZAF badge, presented to Murray Gray's mother, Mrs TM Gray of Kohimarama, by members of w0 Squadron RNZAF, following Murray's death in a flying accident at Whangarei on 18 June 1943. Mrs Gray and lost another son, Flight Sergeant Cecil M Gray, in air operations in North Africa a year earlier. She framed the letters she had received regarding the death of her two sons and these were displayed in her Kohimarama home together with the Memorial clock. Following the death of Mrs Gray the clock was handed down to family friend, Murray White, born 1934, and named after Murray Gray. |
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| Date | (1943-1944); 14 Jan 1998; 18 Jun 1943; World War 2-wars; 03 Mar 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1998.4.1 |
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| Place of creation | Whangarei; New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibition history | Display: 21288 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Collection of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, 1998.4.1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Memorial clock mounted in wooden propeller wing with RNZAF badge This clock was created in memory of 40124 Flying Officer Murray Llewellyn Gray, 20 Squadron RNZAF, who was killed on 18 June 1943 while flying over Whangarei in a Tiger Moth dropping leaflets. The clock, made from the cross-section of a propeller, was given to Murray Gray's mother by members of the squadron. Mrs Gray had lost another son, Flight Sergeant Cecil M Gray, in air operations in North Africa, a year earlier. Flight Sergeant Cecil Montrose Fay was serving as rear gunner on a Wellington Bomber which exploded during a raid on Martuba airfield, North Africa in February 1942. Mrs Gray framed the letters she had received regarding the death of her two sons and these were displayed in her Kohimarama home together with the Memorial clock. Following the death of Mrs Gray the clock was handed down to family friend, Murray White, born 1934, and named after Murray Gray. On 18 June 1943 Flying Officer Gray took off on board a Tiger Moth II (NZ1441) for a leaflet drop during an exhibition flight over Whangarei, part of the 'Air Week Liberty Loan' publicity campaign. The plane's engine cut out while inverted during a low altitude slow roll over Whangarei. In attempting an emergency forced landing in a sparsely populated street, the undercarriage of the plane caught power and telephone lines, causing the plane to crash into the corner of a brick building, killing F-O Gray. He was buried in the Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland (see- Obituary- New Zealand Herald, 19 June 1943) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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This image has been released as "CCBY" by Auckland Museum. For details refer to the Commons project page. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification | 77469 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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