AIR CASUALTIES

Evening Star, Issue 24186, 5 May 1942, Page 4

AIR CASUALTIES

DUNEDIN FLIGHT-SERGEANT

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 5. The following casualties arc announced, all R.N.Z.A.F. unless otherwise stated:— 8011, Bilol-oflieer Maurice Parrott, missing on air operations; father, Mr G. J. Bell, Stratford. Goodlel, Flight-sergeant Travis Coburn, missing on air operations; father, Mr A. C. Goodlel, Dunedin. Howell, Sergeant Alexander Edwin, missing on air operations; mother, Mrs E. S. Howell, Christchurch. McCutchan, Sergeant John Grant, missing on air operations; father, Mr C. H. McCutchan, Onohunga. RECLASSIFICATIONS. Buchanan, Acting Flight-lieutenant Lindsay Basil, D.F.C., R.A.F., Palmerston North, previously missing, death now officially presumed. Downs, Sergeant Harry Chapman, Wellington, reported missing, believed killed, death now officially presumed. Eustace, Flying-officer Francis Edwin, D.F.0., R.A.F., Nelson, reported missing, death officially presumed. Kirlto, Flight-sergeant Frank Skipworth, D.F.M., Wellington, reported missing, now missing, believed prisoner. McLaren, Sergeant Peter Victor, D.F.M., Auckland, reported missing, death officially presumed. Robertson, Sergeant Evan Bertram Te Makahi, Fairhe, reported missing, believed killed, death officially pi'esumed. Whitaker, Sergeant Edward Boyce, Inglewood, reported missing, believed killed, death officially presumed. Williams, Sergeant Edwin John, Auckland, reported • missing, death officially presumed. Wood, Sergeant Frederick Lionel Roy, Bay of Islands, reported missing, death officially presumed. McKenzie, Flight-sergeant Colin Bruce, Hawera, reported missing, now missing, believed prisoner.