LAST REPORT HEARD FROM WARD, V.C.
Signal Over German ‘ Territory
Confirming that the New Zealand Sergeant Pilot James Allen Ward, who recently won the V.C., is reported missing, a British official wireless message states:—
His Wellington bomber, from No. 75 New Zealand Bomber Squadron, did not return from a recent attack on Germany. The bomber took off a few minutes after 8 o’clock and nothing was heard frfi.m it after a signal at the time when it was almost certain that the target had been reached.
A few weeks ago Sergeant Pilot Ward was made captain of a Wellington and given a crew of sergeants. They had already made one attack together against battle-cruisers at Brest on the night of September 13. They are an experienced crew, and most of them had made as many as 22 operational Hights. In fact, they are the crew with whom Sergeant Pilot Ward had come to his squadron from the operational training unit. Sergeant Pilot Ward was shortly to have received from the King his award of the V.C., which was announced in July. The award was won on his seventh operational Hight.
Britain has ordered 15,000,000 cases of canned Californian tomatoes as an emergency food and drink supply in the event of invasion.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 303, 19 September 1941, Page 7
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