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AUCKLANDER'S SUCCESS FLIGHT-LIEUTENANT LUSK Word has "been received by Mr. J. B. Lusk, of 76, St. Andrew's Road, Epsom, that his son, Flying-Officer Harold Stewart Lusk, has been appointed Senior Control Officer at an R.A.F. station at Anglesey, Wales, with the rank of Flight-Lieutenant. Flight-Lieutenant Lusk is aged 23.
Educated in Auckland at King's College, Flight-Lieutenant Lusk was studying at Oxford University at the
outbreak of war. He had previously joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve with the University Air .Squadron and when hostilities began he was ordered to an R.A.F. college at Cranwell.
After training he was commissioned as a Pilot-Officer and posted to a station near London as a member of a night fighter squadron. At the end of 1940 he was promoted to Flying-Officer after nine months of operational flying. Lately he has been flying the new Beaufighter machines.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 211, 6 September 1941, Page 8
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