CASUALTY LIST

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23589, 17 March 1942, Page 6

CASUALTY LIST

♦ SEVEN MEN PRISONERS • OF WAR (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 16. The names of seven prisoners of war are included in a list of casualties in the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force Issued to-night. The list is;— KILLED IN ACTION (PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING) Sharplin, /ictor Clarence, Pte„ Papakura. PRESUMED DEAD (PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING) Birtles, Lennie Joyce, Pte:, Christchurch. Munro, Douglas Stanley Maude, Spr., Winton. Reeve, Thomas Edward, Cpl., Christchurch. Wellington, Rore Antonio. Pte., Ngunguru. PRESUMED DEAD (PREVIOUSLY REPORTED WOUNDED AND MISSING) Morrison, Ralph. Act. L./Cpl,, Timaru. DIED OF WOUNDS (PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING) Lowe, Hector Smith, Pte., Christchurch. DIED OF WOUNDS WHILE PRISONER OF WAR (PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING) Wheeler, Frederick George, Pte., Nelson. DIED OF WOUNDS WHILE PRISONER OF WAR (PREVIOUSLY REPORTED PRISONER OF WAR) Lawson, Raymond Richard, Pte.. Christchurch. DIED AS RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT Wood, William, Dvr. Mrs R. E. Wood, Cambridge (w.). PRISONERS OF WAR (PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING) Dupin, Herbert Seymour, 2/Lt., Opotiki. Bradshaw. Ronald Edward, Pte,, Christchurch. Fisher. Norman Gerald, Dvr., Leeston. Morris. Jack Garnet, Dvr., Blenheim. PRISONERS OF WAR (PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. BELIEVED PRISONERS OF WAR) Tongue. Walter Max, Cpt,, Auckland. Campbell. Los, Pte., Dunedin. Philpott, Vcrdon George Eklriclge, Pte., Wellington, AIR CASUALTIES (P.A.) WELLINGTON. March 16. The following New Zealand air personnel serving overseas have been reported as casualties;— Sergeant William Francis Joyce, killed in an aircraft accident. Mother, Mrs A iVI. Joyce, Wanganui. Sergeant Reuben Acton Scragg, missing on air operations. Wife, Mrs R. A Scragg, Havelock North. Pilot Officer Lewis Alfred Wright, missing on air operations. Father, Mr A E. Wright. Rlccarton. Sergeant Mason John Fraser, previously ''reported missing, death now officially presumed. Father, Mr D. W. Fraser. Dannevirke. Pilot Officer Ronald Walter King, previously, reported missing, now reclassified as prisoner of war. Father, Mr R. A. King, Timaru. Sergeant Edward Boyce Whitaker, previously reported missing, now reclassified missing, believed killed. Father, Mr W. M. Whitaker. Inglewood. Sergeant Edwin John Williams, previously reported missing, now reclassified missing, believed killed. Wife, Mrs E. J. Williams, Auckland.