AIRMAN KILLED.
PILOT-OFFICER GRAY. DEVONPORT RESIDENT. The parents of Pilot-Officer Tan Lawry Gray, R.A.F., Mr. and Mrs. John Gray, of 23, Merani Street, Devonport, have received cabled advice that their son has been killed in action. He was posted missing on May 13 following air operations the previous day. Educated at the Takapuna Grammar School, Pilot-Officer Gray was well known in Auckland by reason of his sporting activities. He joined the staff of the Xew Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company after leaving school and took up flying before the war, being trained by the late Squadron-Leader D. M. Allan at Mangere, and went to Wigrain with a short-service commission in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. On going to England, Pilot-Officer Gray was engaged for a time on the Irish Sea patrol ani afterwards was posted to a northern training station for an intensive course in the largest type of bombers, in which he had since been engaged.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 146, 21 June 1940, Page 3
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