KILLED IN ACTION.
TAIHAPE FIGHTER PILOT. LOST EYE IK CRASH.
CO.G.) . T.4IHAPE, ihi* day. i Private advice ims Ijuwn re«*ived am Ta»«af»e that Pilot-Oflrcer Warren Haoaeill. only sow of -Air. and Mire. J. E. Hamill, formerly »f Tailiap*. fca* killed in action wlutne ««r-. injf .Tenia the RoyaJ Jlir For** in Britain. He was a pilot and wsnalSy β^i* - a Spitfire He lost an eye in a CTa*i» sonie monlSs* Pilot-Officer Ha mill ot» ecJujfnatenl at the Wanganiii CoHejjiate S<r!tool, aiad vat engaged in journalism for a nhort time after leaving *«bool. I>ater be heeame manager (if a cinema, tat m? «>ngajEed in tbi* occupation for a fiJsort time only 'before going to England in 1537 to join the Koyal Air Force. One Hi his vacation* was spent in ??««»tland. where he and bis younger toiler Eiaine stayed mth friend*. I At football and boxing Pilot-Officer HiftDifll made a nam« for»himself while a member of the Boyai Air Force. He ' was reeogni#ed as a capable pilot.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 3, 4 January 1941, Page 12
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