AIR CASUALTIES
♦ (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 15. The following Royal New Zealand Air Force and Royal Air Force casualties are reported Acting-Squadron Leader Lloyd Watt Coleman. D.F.C. and Bar, R.A.F., killed in action. Mother, Mrs B. M; Coleman, Havelock North. Pilot Officer Graeme Holt Fenton, killed in an aircraft accident. Father, Mr B. C. Fenton. Auckland. Pilot Officer William Russell Rattray, killed in an aircraft accident. Mother, Mrs G. J. Rattray, Cromwell. Pilot Officer Oswald William Suckling, missing on air operations. Father, Mr P, Suckling. Cambridge. The following casualty reclassifications are also announced; Sergeant Ronald Leslie Brewer, previously reported missing, death now officially presumed in June. Mother. Mrs G. Hodgkins, England. Sergeant Desmond Aubrey Dacre, previ-ously-reported missing, death now officially presumed in June. Mother, Mrs E. A. Dacre. Auckland. Pilot Officer Norman Mervyn Kebbell Kirkcaldie, previously reported missing, death now officially presumed in May. Mother, Mrs N. Kirkcaldie, Wellington.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23588, 16 March 1942, Page 6
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