AIR CASUALTIES

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23417, 26 August 1941, Page 8

AIR CASUALTIES

. ♦— — (P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 25. The following air casualties were announced to-day:— . Pilot Officer Roderick Urquhart McCracken, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on ’ air operations. Mother, Mrs H. McCracken, Rangibra. Pilot Officer William Davies Eccleton. R.A.A.F., missing on operations. Father, Mr W. C. Eccleton. Auckland. Sergeant Bernard George Evans, R.N.Z.A.F., killed on ait operations. Mother, Mrs D. Evans; Auckland. Sergeant Ernest William McConchie, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on air. operations. Father, Mr E. H. McConchie, Wellington. \ _ Sergeant Albert George Smith, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on operations. Mother, Mrs F. Smith. Wellington. . Sergeant Frederick Richard Wallis, K.N.Z.A.F.; slightly Injured In an aircraft accident, admitted to hospital suffering from a fractured rib and superficial cuts and bruises, father, Mr -F. R. Wallis. Gore. Pilot Officer Sylvester Roger Cllffe Richmond, R.N.Z.A.P., previously reported dangerously Injured, now reported removed from dangerously ill list to seriously ill list. Father, Mr S. H, G. Richmond. Gisborne. _ Pilot 'Officer Allan Frederick McGruer, R N.Z.A.F., missing on operations. Wife Mrs A. McGruer, Wellington. Pilot Officer Bernard Norris Murdoch, R.N.Z.A.F., seriously Injured in an aircraft accident. Mother, Mrs A. O. Murdoch* Wellington.