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Outstanding Service
, Six immediate and 12 other awards to New Zealand airmen for outstanding service on operations overseas are announced in advice received by the Air Department from London. They include two D.S.O.’s to men who have already won the D.F.G. The citations have not yet been received. The awards go to the following:—. Distinguished Service Order: Acting Squadron Leader Alfred William Gordon Cochrane, D.F.G. (father, Mr. W. M. Cochrane, Rawene), (immediate award): Acting Squadron Leader Janies Arnold Harrison, D.F.C. (wife. Mrs. J. A. Harrison, 21S Highgate, Roslyn. Dunedin), (immediate award). Distinguished Flying Cross: I: light Lieutenant Duncan Le Quesne Badley, (father, Mr. R. L. Badley, Lees Road, Taradale, Hawke's Bay), (immediate award) ; Flying O'llicer Kenneth Gerald Orman (mother, Mrs. L. A. Orman, 06 Fortification Road, Sentoun, Wellington), (immediate award) : Flying Officer Roy Emile Le Long, (father, Mr. E. Le Long, '34 Harbutt Avenue, Mt. Albert, Auckland). (immediate award) ; Acting Flying Officer Donald William McKenzie, (mother, Mrs. W. M. McKenzie, 22 Ngataringa Road, Devonport, Auckland), (immediate award); Flying Officer James Alau Pearce, (sisters, Misses B. and J. Pearce, 31 Peacock Street, Christchurch) ; Flying Officer Gordon Hedley Hewitt, (mother, Mrs. R. A. Hewitt, 3 Brown Street, Epsom, Auckland); Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Robert Head, D. 5.0., (wife, Mrs. N. E. Head, C/o. Mrs. Olson, 213 Aro Street, Wellington) ; Flight Lieutenant Charles Gordon Washer, (father, Mr. S. V. Washer, Inaha Hawera) ; Flying Officer Joseph William Lennon, (mother, Mrs. A. Lennon, Mountain Road, Hikurangi, Whangarei); Flying Officer Trevor George Wilson, (sister. Mrs. B. Beale, C/o. L. N. Jacka, Solicitor, Shortland Street, Auckland); Flying Officer John Keillor Aitken, (father, Mr. G. W. Aitken, 252 Stout Street, Gisborne); Flying Officer Douglas Ellwood Hawker, (wife, Mrs. M. G. Hawker, 23 Cuba Street, Christchurch); Flying Officer Norman James Grant, (father, Mr. P. Grant, Box 10, Nightcaps, Southland) ; Flying Officer .Ernest Gibson, (wife, Mrs. M. E. Gibson, 15 Clyde Street. Island Bay, Wellington) : Acting Flying Officer Thomas Harold Sinclair, (wife. Mrs. L. B. Sinclair, .56 Tvndall Road, Kaiti, Gisborne) ; Acting Flying Officer Arnell Dean Meyer, (father, Mr. H. P. Meyer, 6 Marne Street, Hamilton). -
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 68, 14 December 1944, Page 8
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