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Ronald Triner


Ronald Stanley Triner (24 December 1917 – 6 May 1943) is a former New Zealand road cyclist, who was killed in World War II.

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

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 which crashed on takeoff from Waipapakauri in Northland for an antisubmarine patrol. Pilot Officer Triner and Sergeant William Nicholls were both killed.

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