AIR COMMODORE

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 March 1941, Page 7

AIR COMMODORE

ONCE A TROOPER

LONDON, January 30.

One of eight new air commodores is a New Zealander, Group Captain C. R. Carr, D.F.C., A.F.C., (formerly of Feilding), who has long been regarded as one of the most experienced of British airmen. Air Commodore Carr won his D. in the last war. On the outbreak of it he was in the 6th Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Territorial Force, and in July 1915, he became a flight sub-lieutenant, R.N.A.S. Later he served at Vendome, France, from 1916-18. He also served in North Russia, where he won his D.F.C. In 1921 he joined Shackleton’s last expedition in the Quest, and he was engaged to fly an aeroplane carried by the ship. In 1922 he returned to the R.A.F., and in 1927 was chosen to make an official attempt for Great Britain to win the world’s non-stop flight record. Aftei' three gallant efforts, in one of which his machine came down in the Persian Gulf, he was forced to give up. In 1938, after commanding the R.A.F. station at Gosport, he was appointed Senior Air Force Officer in H.M.S. Eagle, and served on the China Station. He was awarded the Air Force Cross in February, 1928.