N.Z. FLAGS OVER SOUTH POLE
AIR FORCE AND NAVY ENSIGNS Two New Zealr-i flags were flown over the South Pole this month and are now in Christchurch where they will be treasured as historic pieces of military equipment. Before the United States Antarctic expedition’s air squadron took off from Harewood for McMurdo Sound in December, the two New Zealand liaison officers to the expedition, Squadron Leader E. C. Gartrell and Lieutenant-Commander J. LennoxKing, entrusted a White Ensign and a Royal New Zealand Air Force ensign tp the care of LieutenantCommander J. Donovan, a co-pilot in one of the planes. The ensigns were taken in the RSD Skymaster commanded by the squadron executive officer (LieutenantColonel H. R. Kolp), and in the plane flew over the South Pole twice. They have now been returned. The air force ensign is in the No. 1 officers’ mess at the R.N.Z.A.F. station, Wigram’’ No announcement has been made concerning the late of the White Ensign but it will probably be kept in some suitable place at the headquarters of the Canterbury division of the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve, H.M.N.Z.S. Pegasus.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27875, 25 January 1956, Page 12
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