BELIEVED KILLED
N.Z. NAVAL OFFICER
The Minister of Defence (Mr. Jones) announced last night the following casualty to a New Zealand officer serving in the Royal Navy:—
Watkinson, Stanley, Probationary Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant. New Zealand Naval Forces, missing, believed killed. Mr. Henry Watkinson, 505 Wellwood Street, Hastings (f.).
Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant Watkinson was the fiftt candidate to be entered under the hew scheme started in 1940 enabling New Zealanders to adopt a long-service career as officers in the New Zealand Naval Forces. He left the Dominion in September of that year and had been undergoing a period of six months' intensive training in various ships of the Royal Navy, after which he would have been appointed to a New Zealand cruiser.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 125, 29 May 1941, Page 6
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119BELIEVED KILLED Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 125, 29 May 1941, Page 6
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