AIR CASUALTIES

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23414, 22 August 1941, Page 8

AIR CASUALTIES

■—♦— ■ (P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 21. The following Air Force casualties have been announced: — , , _ , . Pilot Officer Douglas Westland Garland, R.N.Z.A.F., interned In Algiers. Mother, Mrs N. K. M. Garland. Auckland. Sergeant George Merchant Porter. R«., missing on air operations. Mother, Mrs P. Porter, Wellington. Sergeant. John Trevor Wallace, H.N.Z.A.F., missing on air operations. Mother, Mrs M. F. Wallace, Auckland. Sergeant James Jackson. R.N.Z.A.F.. missing, but believed to be a prisoner of war. Mother, Mrs M. A, Jackson, Mangawai. _ Sergeant Ronald Ramsay Passmore, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on air operations. Mother. Mrs M. R. Passmore. Napier. Sergeant William Henry Russell, R.N.Z.A.F.. missing on air operations. Father, Mr J. H. Russell, Mataura. Sergeant Malcolm Bruce Crooks. R.N.Z.A.F., previously 1 reported missing death now officially presumed. Mother, Mrs D. E. Bell, Wellington. Sergeant Graham Leslie Scott, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on air operations. Father. Mr J. A. Scott, Dunedin. Pilot Officer Edward Bethridge Topp, R.A.F., previously reported missing, now reclassified missing, but believed killed. Mother, Mrs E. B. Topp, WelSergeant William Henry Swain, R.N.Z.A.F., previously reported missing, believed killed, death now presumed. Father, Mr A. W. Swain, Masterton, Flying Officer Cedric West Holdsworth, R.A.F., previously reported missing, now reclassified killed 'as a result of air operations. Father, Mr F. Holdsworth, Wellington,