AIR CASUALTIES

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24112, 23 November 1943, Page 6

AIR CASUALTIES

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, November 22. The following Royal New Zealand Air Force airmen on service overseas are reported to be casualties:— KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE McKinley. Flying Officer Terence. D.F.C. Mr D McKinley Wellington (f.). PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, NOW RECLASSIFIED MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED Adamson Flying Officer David Maurice, of Auckland. Schmidt, Pilot Officer Stanley Thomas, of Turua. Watson, Flying Officer Clifford Arnold, of Christchurch. PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, DEATH NOW OFFICIALLY' PREI SUMED Boswell. Sergeant John McLaren, of Wellington. Jenkins, Sergeant Ernest Roy, of Waharoa. PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. NOW CONFIRMED PRISONER OF WAR Cave, Flight Sergeant William John, of Tupurupuru.

RECLASSIFICATIONS ANNOUNCED TWO MEN KILLED (PA.) WELLINGTON, November 22. , Hie following New Zealand air personnel serving overseas have been reported casualties (all are flight sergeants and all are members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force unless otherwise stated):— . KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE Lowe, Gordon Thomas. Mrs J. M. Lowe, Napier (w.). Meldrum, Flying Officer Hector William. Mrs H. A. Meldrum, Hastings (m.). PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, NOW RECLASSIFIED MISSING. BELIEVED KILLED Crawshaw, Robert Ashworth, of Dunedin. Kirkpatrick, Flying Officer Laurence John, of Gore, Nelson, Pilot Officer Ronald Herbert, of Gisborne. Potter, Edward Vivian, of Matamata. Sands, Flying Officer Hugh Powell, of Dunedin. Sowerby, Sergeant Geoffrey Phillips, of Auckland. Waerea, Pilot Officer Thomas Hawaiklrangl, of Auckland. Wakely, Noel Nathaniel, of Napier. Whitmore, Pilot Officer Richard Charles, of Pukekohe. PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, NOW RECLASSIFIED MISSING. BELIEVED KILLED Mason, Flying Officer William Richard Allan, of Hawarden.