AIR FORCE CROSS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 3, 15 October 1940, Page 6

AIR FORCE CROSS.

THREE NEW ZEALANDERS. NEW AWARDS ANNOUNCED. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, Tins Day. - Two officers of the Royal New Zealand! Air Force have been awarded tlie Air Force Cross, according to an official announcement to-day. Notice to this effect is contained in the London Gazette of October 11. They are : Squadron-Leader Harry Lumsden Tancred, R..N.Z.A.F. station, O'hakea, andl Flight-Lieutenant Erik Alfred Anderson Moen, R.N.Z.A.F. station, W'igram.. Squadron-Leader Tanored, who was Lorn in Australia, is 31 years of age. He was educated at Nelson College, then wont to England!, where lie was granted a short-servioei commission with the Royal Air Force. He. returned to New Zealand in 1938 and entered the Ri.N.Z.A.F 1 . after the outbreak of war. 'He spent a period at the flying instructors’ school at Mange|re and later w T as transferred to the R.N.Z.A.F. station at Ohakea.

Flight-Lieutenant Moen was born at 'Dunedin. He. isi 30 years of age. He was .-educated at Otago Boys’ High School and received bis pilot’s licence in 1932. In 1935 he joined the New Zealand Territorial Air Force and two years later was appointed to a shortseirvice commission! in the R.N.Z.A.F. This. Air 1 Force Cross has also been awarded to Squadron-Leader Gordon John Grindell, about whom details aye not available.