OFFICER AND DRIVER

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 156, 30 December 1940, Page 9

OFFICER AND DRIVER

ONE MISSING; SEVEN

WOUNDED

An official casualty list from the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Western Desert contains the names of one officer and one driver killed in action. . Both Vere from Wellington. A lance-corporal from Christchurch is missing, and seven men, including three from Wellington, have been wounded. The casualties are as follows: — KILLED IN ACTION. Result of Enemy Air Bombs. Second-Lieutenant John Thomas Wallace.. Mother: Mrs. C. P. Wallace, 49 Johnsonville Road, Wellington. Driver Edward William Reynolds. Brother: Mr. N. Reynolds, Tramway Head Office, Cuba Street, Wellington. MISSING. Lance-Corporal Vernon Lindsay Norrish. Father: Mr. V. A. Norrish, 32 Hendon Street, St. Albans, Christchurch. WOUNDED. Result of Enemy Air Bombs. Driver lan Elliot Appleton. Father: Mr. W. Appleton, 10 Oriental Terrace, Wellington. Driver Edward William Boosey. Mother: Mrs. K. Boosey, 9 Pinelands Avenue, Wellington. Driver Alfred Bertram Hurst. Father: Mr. G. Hurst, Springtown, Kesh P.C., care Fermanagh, North Ireland. Sergeant Christopher James Mulligan. Father: Mr. C. Mulligan, Timaru Road, Waimate. Corporal Osbert Thornton Pussell. Father: Mr. O. Pussell, Post Office, Kimbolton. Driver Charles Henry Wall. Father: Mr. F. Wall. Nukualofa, Tonga. WOUNDED IN ACTION. Driver Herbert Mark Cox. Mother: Mrs. M. C. Cox, 6 Fore Street, Kaiwarra, Wellington. R.N.Z.A.F. CASUALTIES Sergeant Christopher Falcon Scott, missing on air operations. Father: Mr. J. Scott, Raukapuka, Geraldine. Sergeant Alfred Henry Ritchie, miss|in on air operations. Mother: Mrs. M. Ward, 72 Park Avenue, Grey Lynn, Auckland. Sergeant Errol James Peters, killed in an aircraft accident. Father: Mr. G. F. Peters, 66 Barrud Street, Dannevirke. Sergeant Herbert Malcolm McGregor English, missing on air operations.! Fattier: Mr. E. H. English, Pakaututu! Station, Hastings, Hawke's Bay. j