Ronald Triner

Ronald Stanley Triner (24 December 1917 – 6 May 1943) was a New Zealand road cyclist. He was killed in an air crash during World War II.

In the 1938 British Empire Games he competed in the Road Race, and he was a New Zealand cycling champion.[1]

He was born in Auckland, and was a radio mechanic with Radio (1936) Ltd. He enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1939. In 1943 he was the navigator of a Hudson aircraft that crashed on takeoff from Waipapakauri in Northland for an antisubmarine patrol. Pilot Officer Triner and Sergeant William Nicholls were both killed.[2]

References
  1. Auckland Star 12 May 1943, p5
  2. RNZAF Biographies of deceased personnel, Air 118/62; microfilm NZ 639088, Micro Z3529 at Archives NZ, Wellington


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