AIR FORCE POST.
EX- NEW ZEAIANDER CHOSEN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, February 4. A distinguished officer of the Royal Air Force, Wing-Commander Charles R. Carr,- D.F.C., A.F.C., has been appointed to command the air arm in the aircraft carrier Eagle, leaving Portsmouth in a few days for the Far East, in which she will replace the Hermes. Commander Carr is a New Zealander by birth, and held his first commission in the 6th New Zealand Mounted Rifles, from which he was transferred to the Royal Naval Air , Service, and with various units served j on the Western Front and in the Channel from Vendome base, 1910-18. When the war was over in France and Flan- , ders he saw further Bervice in North Russia. When Shackleton's last expedi- \ tion made its great assault on the Ant- , arctic regions he was one of its mem- , befs, and five years later he was one of the live R.A.F. officers who attempted j the world's non-stop record flights. Three times he essayed, and just failed. • In one attempt he came to grief in the Persian Gulf, and narrowly escaped death.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 69, 23 March 1937, Page 11
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