CASUALTY LIST

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 182, 16 May 1941, Page 6

CASUALTY LIST

FOUR DEATHS REPORTED. Ei&HT MEN AMONG WOUNDED, \ , ' * MT. SOMERS MAN INCLUDED. - . ' . ■...*• •' - »• M The following casualties to members of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary .Force ate reported 1 1 ; killed Pte William Richard : Bean. Sister, Mrs A. S, Rose, Rotowaro, via Huntly. - ’'' ' . Trooper Patrick. Stephen Grattan, Mother, Mrs E. Grattan, Auckland Trooper Allan Thomas Risk. -Mother. Mrs J. Risk, Ohura. Died of Wounds. Sergt.* Douglas Spinley. Mother, Mrs S. J. Spinley, Morrinsville. Wounded. L.-Cpl. Alfred . Thomas Blakeley. Mother, Mrs Blakeley, Hull, Eng. Pte. Frank Leslie Ellio.tt. Mother, Sirs B. Elliot, Hamilton. Cpl. Jeffrey John William King. Sister, Miss Adeline King. Mount Somers. Pte. William Robert Malloy. Cousin, Mr Reg. Malloy, Auckland. Pte. Alfred Thomas Rye. Mother, Mrs J. Rye, Ellham. Trooper Francis London Scrimgeonr. Mother, Mrs E. C. Kearns, Napier. Pte. Robert Henry Stevenson. Mother, Mrs E. M. Stevenson, Frankton Junction. Cpl. Frederick Vincent Ward. Wife, Mrs C. S. Ward, Whangarei.

THE PREVIOUS LIST. NINE KILLED IN ACTION. TWENTY-TWO MEN WOUNDED. ... > I ' ’ (P.A) - WELLINGTON, May 15. The following casualties to members of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force are reported; Killed in Action. Pte. Lawrence Brian Bosworth. Father, Mr ir. A. Bosworth, Opnnake. Pte. Herbert Henry Burgess. Mother, Mrs'E.""Burgess, Mangamaire, Paliitua. Sergt. John Stanley Horton Dring. Wife, Mrs A. D. Dring, Masterton. Pte. John O’Brien. Mother, Airs Putu O’Brien, Te Puke. Sergt, Thomas Logie, Wife, Mrs C. D. Logie, Lower Hutt. ... L.-Cpl. Allen Edward O’Neill. Father, Air E. H. O’Neill, Temuka. L.*Cpl. s George Murray Sandifordi Father, Mr G. V. H. Sandiford, Wnitotara. - Pte. John Ross Tustin. Alother, Mrs A. M. Tustin, Wellington. Pte, ..Douglas Wilson, Wife, Afrs M. Wilson, Wellington. Prisoner of War. Pte. Reginald Henry Powell. .Wife, Mrs E. M. Powell, Hnwcra. < Wounded. Lieut.-Col. Hugh Graeme Carruth. Alother, Mrs M. E. Carruth, Wainui, Whangarei. Ca-pt. "William Richard Kimmitt Atorrison. Father, Air William Alorrison, Auckland. Pte. Thomas Harold Douglas Clark. Alother, Airs Jessie Clark, Waimato. Pte. Jack Cockroft. Wife, Mrs H. Cockroft, Upper Hutt. Gunner Henry Edward Denyer. Wife, Airs P. V. Denyer, Auckland. Sergt.' Douglas Gordon Dillon. Alother, Mrs E. A. Dillon, Otane. Pte. Douglas Lloyd George. Father, Mr A. George, Aloturoa. Driver Arthur William Hearn. Mother, Mrs Eliza Hearn, Waihi.i Pte. "William Arthur Johnson. Father, Air G. W. Johnson, Lumsden. - Pte Alexander George Leslie Lambert. Mother, Airs AI. Lambert, Hawera, Pte. Charles Stewart Lovett. Brother, Air W. J. Lovett, Aramoho. Cpl. Christopher John McCarthy. Wife, Mrs A. E. AlcCarthy, Auckland. , Cpl. Harold Marshall. Wife, Mrs H. M. Marshall, Auckland. L.-Sergt. lan Brown Munro. Brother, Capt. A. Munro, North Head, Auckland. Pte. George Henry Peacock. Brother, Air E. Peacock, Hihitahi. Pte. Charles Adair Pistor. Alother, Afrs E. Pistor, Gisborne. Sapper Stanley Barrington Reitman. Father, Mr A. Reitman, Thames. Pte. David George William Smyth. Mother, Mrs I. K. Smyth, Dunedin. Pte John James Tregea. Wife, Mrs E. C. Tregea, Tahuna, Dunedin. Sapper Roger William Turner. Mrs N. J.: Patrick, Christchurch (relationship not stated). Pte. Sydney Alexander Wright. Father, Air AV. C. Wright, Alangere.

AIR CASUALTIES. ONE ACCIDENTAL DEATH. SERGEANT BELIEVED KILLED. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The following Air Force casualties were announced to-day:— Sergeant Alexander Coutts Mee, missing, believed killed in air operations. Grandmother, Mrs <T. Coutts Brighton, Otago. Flying-Officer Ralph Holden Nicolson, killed in. an aircraft accident.

Mother, Mrs E. M. Nicholson, Christchurch. Pilot Officer Daniel McLean Campbell, missing in air operations. Uncle, Mr ,T. W. Campbell, Herne'Bay, Auckland. A PREVIOUS LIST. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 15. The following Air Force casualties wore announced to-night:— Pilot Officer Norman Mcrvyn Ivebbell Kirkcaldie, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on air operations. Mother, Mrs N. Kirkcaldie, 80 Hobson street, Wellington. Sergeant James Clark C'attcll, It.N.Z.A.F., now reclassified as missing believed killed. Mother, Mrs M. E. Cattell, 43 Messines road, Karori. Sergeant Basil Alexander Walker, B N.E.A.F. killed on air operations. Mother, Mrs K. Walker, 39 Cameron road, Napier. Sergeant Norman Franklin Dixon, B N Z.A.F., killed on air operations Father, Mr O. Dixon, 138 Earn Street, Invercargill.