415268 Leading Aircraftsman Chester Wynter Probert, (4/3/1914-6/10/1942). "for ever and ever"

TIMARU AIRMAN KILLED

Crash In The North Island 

(N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 6. 

A member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force lost his life when the aircraft in which he was engaged in solo flying training crashed this morning at an air station in the North Island. He was Leading Aircraftman Chester Probert. His mother is Mrs G. E. Probert, of Timaru.  -Timaru Herald, 7/10/1942.

DEATH

PROBERT — On October 6, 1942, at New Plymouth. Leading Aircraftman Chester Wynter Probert, R.N.Z.A.F., dearly beloved only son of Mr Chas. I. and Mrs G. E. Probert, of 64 Woodlands Road, Timaru, aged 28 years.  -Timaru Herald, 8/10/1942.

PROBERT — The friends of Mr and Mrs Chas. I. Probert are invited to attend the funeral of their late son, Leading Aircraftman Chester Wynter Probert, which will leave the Timaru Railway Station on Saturday, October 10, at 12 a.m. for the Timaru Cemetery. (C. H. Barrie.)  -Timaru Herald, 9/10/1942.

PERSONAL

A motion of condolence with the relatives of the late Leading Aircraftman C. W. Probert, of Timaru, was carried in silence at the meeting of the Timaru Borough Council last night.  -Timaru Herald, 20/8/1942.

A motion of sympathy with Mr C. I. Probert, dispenser at the Timaru Public Hospital, in the death of his son, Leading Aircraftman C. W. Probert, was passed at a meeting of the South Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday.  Timaru Herald, 21/10/1942.

ROLL OF HONOUR

PROBERT — In loving memory of our dearly beloved son, Leading Aircraftman Chester Wynter Probert, R.N.Z.A.F., killed in an aircraft accident, October 6, 1942. 

Not just to-day, but every day, We do remember him. 

— Inserted by his loving parents. 

PROBERT — In loving memory of my dear brother, Leading Aircraftman Chester Wynter Probert, R.N.Z.A.F., killed in an aircraft accident October 6. 1942. 

For ever and ever, will I remember him. 

— Inserted by his loving sister, Anne.  -Timaru Herald, 6/10/1944.

Chester Probert's entry in the record of RNZAF wartime deaths simply mentions that he crashed a Tiger Moth training aeroplane at Bell Block, near New Plymouth.

Timaru Cemetery.