COLLEGE OLD BOY DECORATED

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23108, 26 August 1940, Page 8

COLLEGE OLD BOY DECORATED

• PILOT OFFICER GRAY’S ACHIEVEMENT (press association telegram.) GISBORNE, August 24. The award of the Distinguished Flying Cross to Pilot Officer Colin Gray, cabled on Friday as of Christchurch, gives the family of Mr and Mrs R. L. Gray, of Gisborne, one of the most remarkable records of the war. Two members of the family, twin brothers, have now been awarded the same decoration. Pilot Officer Colin Gray is a brother of the late Flying Officer Kenneth Gray, who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for an outstanding performance when he brought a badly damaged bomber home from a raid over Germany last December. Pilot Officer Kenneth Gray, who was killed shortly after being decorated, was the first member of the family to join the Royal Air Force and went to a bomber squadron. Pilot Officer Colin Gray, joining up a little later, was posted to a fighter formation. In letters to his parents he tells some of his many experiences in recent months, including an occasion when, like his brother, be only just managed to get a badly damaged machine back to its base. The twin brothers were pupils of Christ’s College in 1929. and 1930.