R.A.F. COLLEGE PRIZES
Top Cadet From Christchurch Cadet Officer A. E. Thomson, of Christchurch, has won three major prizes at the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, from which he will graduate on July 29. The prizes are the Sword of Honour, the Air Ministry Prize and the R.N.Z.A.F. trophy for Commonwealth war studies. The Sword of Honour will be presented at the graduation parade by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military commander .(General Lauris Norstad, U.S.A.F.).
Cadet Officer Thomson, who is 22, is the son of the late Station Officer E. A. E. Thomson, formerly of the St. Albans fire
station, and Mrs Thomson. He left New Zealand in 1952 to train as an aircraft apprentice at the R.A.F. No. 1 Technical Training School. Halton. In 1954 he was awarded the lanyard for the best all-round cadet, an award equivalent to the Cranwell Sword of Honour. Cadet Officer Thomson was educated at Cathedral Grammar School and Christchurch Boys’ High School, and was a member of the Christchurch Cathedral choir for several years.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28646, 24 July 1958, Page 7
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