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Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 25 July 1918, page 8
LATE M. GUILLAUX.
FAMOUS FRENCH AIRMAN'S DEATH.
Particulars which have been received by the Acting Consul-Genernl for France in Sydney concerning the manner tn which M. Ernest Francois Guillaux, the French aviator, who was in Sydney in 1914, met his death show that he died on May 24 last sear as tne result of a fall whilst trying an aeroplane. His funeral to which the French Minister of War sent a representative, took place at Neullly-sur-Seine two days later.
M Guillaux it will be remembered performed feats of extraordinary intrepidity In the air in Sydney a few months before the outbreak of war, which called him to the defence of his homeland While here he frequently spoke prophetically of the tremendous use to which aircraft would be put in the event of war, and in May 1914 not long before the outbreak of the war he declared in an intetview: "The next war will be won by the nation with the most efficient aerial force. France today has the greatest power in the air and if she comes into conflict with any nation whose naval and military forces are not greatly in excess of her own, her aeroplanes will win the day."