Palstra, William

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Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsPilotsUniversity administratorsHistoryWilliam Palstra was born in Holland in 1891. He emigrated to Australia with his parents and became an officer in the Salvation Army. During W.W.I he served in the trenches in France and in 1918 became a pilot with the Australian Flying Corps. After the war Palstra returned to Australia and became an assistant to the Registrar at the University of Melbourne, graduated B.A. in 1924 and assisted Douglas Copland in the establishment of the Commerce Faculty. Palstra was a member of the peacetime R.A.A.F. rising to the rank of Squadron Leader, and becoming liaison officer between the R.A.A.F. and British Air Ministry. He died 5 October 1930, when the British airship R 101 on which he was a passenger struck a hill at Beauvais in France.

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