OVERSEAS FORCES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 279, 25 November 1941, Page 2

OVERSEAS FORCES

PILOT COMMISSIONED SOLDIER IN PRISON CAMP Intimation that their son, Ronald Puttick, has gained his wings and been promoted to pilot-officer, has been received by cable from Canada by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Puttick, of Alba Road, Epsom. Educated at the Epsom School and the Auckland Grammar School, Pilot-Officer Puttick, who is 19, was employed in the Customs Department in Auckland before his enlistment. He left for Levin in May last, and there gained second place in a class of 200. Later he trained at Whenuapai and also gained second place In the flying section. He has two brothers serving in the forces, one being a prisoner of war in Germany, and the other being in the forces in New Zealand.

Gunner C. E. Clark, who formerly resided at 154, Balmoral Road, Mount Eden, and who left the Dominion with the Second Echelon, has advised his wife that he is a prisoner of war in a German transit camp in Crete. Gunner Clark was reported missing six months ago.

In connection with the report in yesterday's Star of the death of Pilot-Officer F. C. Hackett. it is pointed out that he was the younger son of Captain A. G. Hackett, late of the Royal Artillerv but now of the New Zealand Artillery, and Mrs. Hackett, of Prospect Road, Glen Eden.