WAR CASUALTIES

Evening Star, Issue 25300, 7 October 1944, Page 8

WAR CASUALTIES

DEATH ON AIR OPERATIONS FLIGHT-SERGEANT C. S. HENDERSON Flight-sergeant Colin Selkirk Henderson, son of Mr and Mrs T. Henderson, of Wales street, Roslyn, met his death while on air operations. He was educated at the Caversham, Maori Hill, and Otago Boys' High Schools, and at the time of his enlistment in the N.Z.R.A.F. was a member of the staff of Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd. He was a keen hockey player of • the Old Boys"€lub and a member of the Otago junior representative team. He was best known in Maori Hill and Wakari as an office-bearer and worker among young men in the Presbyterian Church. He gave of his best as a Sunday school teacher, Bible class leader, and brigade officer. After an apprenticeship as Life Boy leader, junior officer, and later captain of the Twelfth Dunedin (Maori Hill) Company of the Boys' Brigade, he accepted the responsibility of founding a new unit at Wakari. The 14th Dunedin . (Wakari) Company of the Boys' Brigade is a living memorial to his life and work. In addition to his Maori Hill and Wakari interests Flightsergeant Henderson served on the Dunedin executive of the brigades, as assistant to other companies whose officers had enlisted, and while in Canada and England he gave his services unstintingly to units near where he was located from time to time.