SERVICE REWARDED

Evening Star, Issue 25395, 29 January 1945, Page 8

SERVICE REWARDED

AIR PERSONNEL " MENTIONED IN OESPATCHES "

(P.A.) ■ WELLINGTON, January 28. Advice ha& been received by: the Air Department that the following R.N.Z.A.F. personnel have been mentioned in despatches for meritorious service, either in the European or the Pacific theatre:— OTAGO. Acting Wing-commander Reginald William Baker, D.F.C.; father, Mr Charles Baker, Dunedin. \ Flying-officer John Stanley Asher; wife. Mrs I. (I. A. Asher. Dunedin. OTHER DISTRICTS. Wing-commander Jack Edmund Watts. A.F.C., Maiton. Acting Wing-commander Ronald Graham Watts, Auckland. Squadron-leader Hilton Rex Hall, D.F.C.. Wellington. Acting . Squadron-leader Brian Roy Quilan, D.F.C., Rotorua. Acting Squadron-leader " Frederick William Carnpbell, Western Australia. Acting Squadron-leader Edmund Douglas Crossley. Wellington. Acting Squadron-leader Dougals Haig Palmer, Wellington. Acting Squadron-leader Paul Stanles Green, Hamilton. Acting Squadron-leader Recfclaw Renolds, Te Awamulu ' : Flight lieutenant Maurice '' Spinley. U.F.M.. Wellington , Flight-lieutenant Charles Wynne; Brunsdon Kelly. D.S.O. D.F.C.' Christcliurch. Flight-lieutenant Hugh James" Wright. Masterton. '•'.•■■ Flight-lieutenant Royd At>qmth Wadham, Auckland. Flight-lieutenant Patrick Thomas Curran. Auckland. Flight-lieutenant Bernard Lewis Hoskin. Auckland Acting Flight-lieutenant Raymond Bassler, Napier. Acting Flight-lieutenant James Frederick Taylor Auckland Acting Flight-lieutenant Kenneth Henrv Beecroft, Helensville. Acting Flight-lieutenant Clive Fowler Jacobson. Wellington Acting Flight-lieutenant Raymond Jack Nelson Archibald, Christcvuirch . Flying-officer Maxwell Nicholas Sparks, 'Auckland.,

Flying-officer Lawrence. Montague Layzell, Napier.-, Flying-officer Albert Edgar Larcombe, Whangarei.

Flying-officer Vernon Roy Jackson, Invercargill. Flying-officer John Darral. Ackerman, Masterton.

Flying-officer Sydney Harold Manning, Christchurcli.

Fiying-officer Robert. James Wallace. Wei iin<rton Flying-officer James George Wilson, Fairill". Flying-officer- Waltei James Jennings, Shannon

Flying-officer James Reynolds Bowen Auckland.

Flyin«office.i William Morton Bullen Christcliurch.

Flying-officer William John Poison Fordell Flying-officer James Alfred Mcßride. Wei ungton. Flying officei Leonard Dalziell Bell. Pal rnerston North

Flying-officer Percj Warwick Blundell, Wellington. Pliot-officer Cecil Roy Griffin, Matamata. Pilot officer John William Gillgren. Gisborne ■ ■ ' •

Pilot-officer Percy Francis Carter, Fairlie Pilot-officer James Scott Henderson. Invercargill. Pilot-officer Robert Blakeman . Hemmings, Invercargill. Pilot-officer Murray Adamson Nagel. Wanjanui ■ Pilot-officer Anthony Francis Hough. Wellington Warrant-officer Arthur Morris, Wanganui. Warrant-officer Francis Herbert Dix. Auckland. Warrant-officer James Robinson Smith. Claudelands. Hamilton. Serjeant Jnmes Leonard Brash, Auckland. Sergeant Edwin Worsdale, Wellington. Corporal Michael William Organ. Westport. Corporal Richard James Murray, I'aupo. Leading-aircraftman David Erik Ohms, Auckland Leading-aircraftman bills Aubrey Henrick son, Auckland.