AIR CASUALTIES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 112, 21 February 1941, Page 5

AIR CASUALTIES.

SEVEN NEW ZEALANDERS. / WELLINGTON, February 20. The following air casualties- were announced to-night: Flying-Officer Ronald William Gair, R.A.F., missing on air operations. He was educated at Napier Boys’ High School, and accepted for a short-service commission in the Royal Air Force in the early part of 1939. His father is. Mr C. J*-;’ Gair, of the Government Audit- Department, Wellington. ’ V If i Flight-Lieut. Wallace Ferguson Barker, D.F.C., R.A.F.,' killed in air operations. His father is Mr S. R. Barker, of Gisborne. Pilot-Officer Ronald Owen'Lawry,' pc viously reported missing, now presumed killed. ! Hiaj father is Mr H. ... B. Lawry, of -Wai-iti Avenue, ♦Lower Hutt. : • • ' Pilot-Officer Murray Charles, Petrie, , previously reported missing, now presumed killed. His father is Mr F. Petrie. Coromandel Street, Wellington. Pilot-Officer Kenneth John Alan Johnstone, previously missing, now presumed killed. His fatheris Mr J. L. S. Johnstone, of Rus- , sell Road, Manurewa, Auckland. Sergeant Douglas Lawrence Burton was reported missing and later reported prisoner of war and wounded. A message has been received from him stating that he is in hospital and making excellent progress. His mother is; Mr? J. PBurton, Opunakc, Taranaki. Flying - Officer Eric Neil Baker is reported,to be missing as,'a resirlfrof air operations on February 18. v ;Aged : 24, 'lie is the son of Mrs C. S. Baker, 31 Simla Crescent, -Khandallah. He joined the Royal; Air..,Force, as a pilcJ about, a year before' the war. He wa,s attached to tho Army Co-operation Command and took part in air activity over Calais. „ . ... •