AIRMAN MISSING.
ANOTHER AUCKLANDER. FLYING-OFFICER JOHXSTOXE. Another Auckland airman is missing, believed killed, during air operations 011 Friday. He is Flying-Officer Kenneth John Alan Johnstone, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Johnstone, of Russell Road. Mauurewa. Educated at Auckland Grammar School, where he was in the senior hockey team, Flying-Officer Johnstone was a keen musician, and played in the Bohemian Orchestra while still a schoolboy. In 1937 he went to England with one of the earliest detachments for the Royal Air Force, and after obtaining his civil pilot's" license at Syweli, Northamptonshire, he attended the school of navigation at Marston. On passing out he was posted to the 106 th Bomber Squadron as a navigator. At first he was stationed at Thornahy, Yorkshire, but when war broke, out he was transferred to Waddington, Lincolnshire. It it= believed that Flying-Officer Johnstone took part in the successful raid on Sylt last month, a« he has been identified in photographs of the men who participated.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 90, 16 April 1940, Page 3
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