Obituary WING COMMANDER A. L. PARTELOW
CN.Z. Press Assoctotion) WELLINGTON, Sept. 20. Wing Commander Alston Leonard Partelow, 0.8. E., a pioneer of radio in New Zealand, died in Wellington today. He was 53. He is survived by his wife and two sons.
Wing Commander Partelow, who retired from the Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1962, was chief signals officer in the Air Force in the Pacific in 1943-44, and deputy director of signals in 194647. He made the radio set used by Francis Chichester in the early 1930 s for a Gypsy Moth flight from New Zealand to Japan, by way of Norfolk and Lord Howe islands and Australia. Wing Commander Partelow was one of New Zealand’s first “ham” radio operators.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30862, 22 September 1965, Page 8
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