AIRMAN MISSING

Franklin Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 47, 27 April 1942, Page 3

AIRMAN MISSING

SERGEANT REG. KELLY OPERATIONS OYER OERMANY HOPES THAT HE IS A PRISONER Sergeant T. Kelly (of Hie Pukekohe Police Force) and Mrs Kelly, received advice during the week-end Hull their third son, Sergeant Reg Kelly, of Ihe Royal New Zealand Air Force, is missing, following jau ■ operational flight over Germany. Reg. Kelly left Pukekohe on September 30, Ibid, with four other local boys—Eric Grant. Have Russell, Arthur Hewitt and the late Maurice Best. l’or a R.N.Z.A.F. elementary training school. After some weeks there he qualified and left for Canada where he completed his course and went to England as a Sergeant Air Gunner, and was posted to a bomber squadron which he accompanied on a number of operational flights over enemy territory. Sergeant Kelly sent greetings over the" air to his relatives and friends from England some months ago. His engagement to Miss Marie Brown, a •well-known Pukekohe young lady, was announced recently. The sympathy of a large circle of friends is extended to Sergeant and Mrs Kelly and Miss Brown in their anxiety for Reg’s safety. Hopes however are entertained that the aircraft of which Sergeant Kelly was one of the crew, was shot down, and that he with other members of the crew are prisoners, in which case it will be some time before definite news comes to hand. In the meantime he is missing. Sergeant and Mrs Kelly have four sons in the Armed Forces: Tom is in Eigypt. Reg is missing, and Frank and Leo are in training for overseas and will be entertained at Pukekohe on AVednesday evening.