ANOTHER AWARD
WELLINGTON PILOT
Private cable advice has been received that Pilot Officer X.. S. Peterson, Royal Air Force, only son of Captain P. S. Peterson, harbourmaster at Wellington, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying. Cross.
Pilot Officer Peterson was born in Auckland on December 28, 1913, and educated at Kelburn Normal School and Wellington College. He was a member of the Tararua Tramping Club and the Ruapehu Ski Club. ' As a boy he was keenly interested in Scouting. He joined the Ist Kelburn Troop of the Boy Scouts 18 years ago and rose through the various grades to Scoutmaster. He formed the Ist Kelburn Rovers and at the time of his enlistment in the Air Force was Rover Leader.
Pilot Officer Peterson was for some years in the service of the Victoria Insurance Company (Levin and Co., Ltd.), and left to enlist in the Air Force at the outbreak of the war. He left New Zealand early in July of last year. While training in England his plane caught fire on November 6 and crashed. His left arm was broken and his left elbow smashed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 27, 31 July 1941, Page 11
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186ANOTHER AWARD Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 27, 31 July 1941, Page 11
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