PRESUMED DEAD
FLIGHT-SERGEANT N. J. NEWALL Advice has been received by Mr and Mrs L. G.-Newall, formerly of 22 Freyberg street, Dunedin, that their son, Flight-sergeant Norman John Newall, has been presumed dead. He was reported missing on a patrol flight from Guadalcanal on December 18, 1942. When the Missing Personnel Investigation Unit visited Eabaul, an imprisoned missionary reported that a New Zealand airman arrived at the prison camp in January, 1943. It was learned that this New Zealander had been shot down off Suavanu Point, Rekata Bay. Santa Ysobel Island, and that he was it? only survivor from the aircraft of which Flight-sergeant Newall was the pilot. Flight-sergeant Newall was einploved in Dunedin before he joined the Air Force, and his wife resides at Nelson.
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Evening Star, Issue 25674, 24 December 1945, Page 6
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126PRESUMED DEAD Evening Star, Issue 25674, 24 December 1945, Page 6
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