SERVING IN BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 28, 1 August 1942, Page 6

SERVING IN BRITAIN

NOTES ON NEW ZEALANDERS

(By Telegraph—Press Assocfatron--Copyrlaht.)

(Special Correspondent;)

LONDON, July: 30. Pilot Officers rPeter Tonkin (Napier) and G. M: Cunningham (Hastings) are members of a famous Tt.A.F. squadron which is flying the American Mustang Army Co-operation, fighters. Five New Zealanders ; shook hands with the King at a recent investiture at Buckingham Palace when he pinned on their decorations.. They were Wing Commander H.. N. G. RamsbothamIsherwood, Petone; Flight Lieutenants W. V. C. Compton, Mission Bay, and G. H. Francis, Takapuna, arid Flying Officer W. A. Newenham, Nelson, who is in the Royal Canadian Air Force (all of whom won the- D:F.C), and Stoker First Class B. E. Bennett, Palmerston North, who won the D.S.M.

, The following have been temporarily commissioned: — In Fleet Air Arm: Sub-lieutenants J. C. Brown (Dunedin), C. Craw (Central Otago), J. M. Douglas (Mastert6n), R. S. Fleming (New Plymouth), A. B. Foley (Takapuna). , ~ In the R.N.Z.N.V.R.: Sub-lieutenants J. F. Y. Schischka, B. Blake, J. Forgie, and K. D. Tripp (Auckland); J. C. Wilson (Cambridge), A. H. Newton and William Miles (Wellington), and Alan H. Paul (Wanganui). Promoted to temporary lieutenant, Tom Markwick (Auckland).' . The High Commissioner, Mi*. Jordan, welcomed Miss Jane Winstone (Wanganui), who has .arrived in Britain to ferry aircraft for the Auxiliary' Transport Service. . ~ Flight Lieutenant A. G. J. Humphries, D.F.C. (Christchurch), writing from a prison camp in Germany, says: "Please tell my mother lam 01. I find myself contemplating barbed wire, which is a rather inglorious end to my op's. We baled out from bur Sterling when it was on fire over Denmark." Humphries had completed nearly -50 raids. .