TWO MORE AWARDS
GALLANT AIRMEN
DOMINION'S FINE RECORD
Two more awards have been' received by New Zealanders serving with the Royal Air Force, bringing the total up to 47. This total does not include the bar to the Distinguished Flying Cross received by two -New Zealand officers. :
The tAvo latest awards go to Flying Officer William Hector Stratton, who receives the Distinguished Flying Cross; and to Sergeant Norman Jonathon Ingram, awarded the Distinguished Flying. Medal.
Flying Officer Stratton was born at Hastings and is 24 years of age. 'For a period he was ener^ed in farming at Hawera, where he . joined the HaAvera branch of the. Western Federated (North Island) Flying .Club, gaining his "A" licence in 1935. Tavo years later, in. 1937, lie was selected for a short service commission Avith the Royal Air Force,, and left for England, Avhere he has since been sewing with the R.A.F.
.Sergeant Ingram was born'at Island Bay, Wellington, Avhich is his home, and is not quite. 22 years of age. He Avas educated at Wellington Boys' College and later entered a : commercial office in Wellington. . He left for England to join the Royal Air Force in 1938.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1940, Page 13
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195TWO MORE AWARDS Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1940, Page 13
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