CASUALTY LIST
* THREE MEN PRESUMED DEAD (P.A.) WELLINGTON. March 13. The following New Zealand Expedition-1 ary Force casualty list was issued tonight:— PRESUMED DEAD (PREVIOUSLY REPORTED WOUNDED AND MISSING) Dawson. Leonard Newcastle, Pte., Australia. Nelley, Eugene Charles, Pte., Whangarei. PRESUMED DEAD (PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING) Dobbie, Robert Ewart, Pte., Brisbane. MISSING, BELIEVED PRISONERS OF WAR (PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING) Kennard-Davis, John Shelly, Pte., England. , Taylor, Trevor Harold. Pte., Whangarei. Wright, Philip Noel, L/Cpl., Auckland. PRISONER OF AVAR (PREVIOUSLY REPORTED WOUNDED AND MISSING, BELIEVED PRISONER OF WAR) Wilkins, Joseph, Pte., Papakura. PRISONER OF WAR (PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. BELIEVED PRISONER OF WAR) Pilling, Raymond Spencer, Bdr., Wellington, AIR CASUALTIES (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 13. The following Royal New Zealand Air Force casualties are reported to-night:— Sergeant Ronald Lavender Baker, injured in air operations. Mother, Mrs C. S. Baker, Wellington. Pilot Officer Geoffrey Pender Chambers, missing on air operations. Father, Mr J. Chambers. Wellington, Pilot Officer Cedric Hubert Owen Priest, killed in an aircraft accident. Father, Mr D. O. Priest, Waharoa. Pilot Officer Edmund Douglas Crossley. previously reported missing, believed prisoner of war, now safe in Allied territory. Wife, Mrs E. D. Crossley, Hawera. Pilot Officer Donald Alfred Lewis, previously reported missing, death now officially presumed as in July. Father, Mr V. Lewis, Levin. Sergeant Timothy Rowley Murphy, previously reported missing, believed killed, death now officially presumed as in October. Mother, Mrs J. R. Murphy, Kotemaori. Sergeant Colin Maurice Thompson, previously reported missing, believed killed. Death now officially presumed as in October. Father, Mr T. J. Thompson, Christchurch. NAVAL CASUALTY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 13, The following Naval casualty was announced to-nignt:— Able-sfaman George Eric John Slillon, missing. Wife, Mrs Ada Daphne Stilton, Auckland.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23587, 14 March 1942, Page 8
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