AIRMAN KILLED
WELLINGTON PILOT
Advice has been received by Mrs. A. J. Canning,. 24 Stafford Street, Wellington, that her son, Pilot Officer Charles de Vie Halkett, who.was reported missing on September 9, is. now known to have been killed. The cablegram from the Air Ministry which contains this information states that he is buried at Wembercourt. , ■
Pilot Officer Halkett was aged 24. He was educated at St. Mark's School and Wellington College, and was halfway through a dentistry course at Otagc University when he joined the Royal Air Force. He trained partly in New Zealand, leaving the Dominion last April, and underwent further training in England. He had been in action only a few days when he was reported missing. The flight on which his machine was brought down was for the purpose of bombing a Channel port.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 145, 16 December 1940, Page 7
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