N.Z. AIRMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 May 1943, Page 4

N.Z. AIRMEN

THIRTEEN FURTHER AWARDS

WELLINGTON, May 21. Thirteen Distinguished Flying Crosses and four Distinguished Flying Medal make up the latest list of award to members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force overseas. Details are:— T D.F.C.: Acting-Flight Lieutenant Edward McLeod Gray (missing), Mrs H. S. Gray, Wellington (m); Acting-Flight Lieutenant Leo George Trott, Mr A. E. Trott, Otorohanga (f.); Acting-Flight Lieutenant James Gillespie Neilson, Mr J. Neilson, Feilding (f.); Flying Officer William John Robert Scollay, Mr R. Scollay, Wellington (f.).; Flying Officer James Cowan (posthumous), Mrs L. Cowan, Hastings (m.); Flying Officer Duga d Louis Poppelwell, Mr W. T Poppe - well, Dunedin (brother); Flying Officer Noel Ainsley Cresswell, Mrs E. Cresswell, Napier (m.); Pilot Officei Irvine Watt Renner, Mrs B. I. Renner, Gisborne (m.); Pilot Officer William John Muir Low Barclay, D.F.M., Mr G. M. L. Barclay, Dunedin (1.); Pilot Officer Harry O’Brien Liver, Mr R. J. Liver, Lower Hutt (f.); Pilot Officer Donald Winter Thomson, Mr J- A. Thomson, Aria (f.); Pilot Officer Harold Reginald Hamerton. Mr R. G. Hamerton, Palea (f.); Pilot Officer John Henry Low, Mr H. Low, Ocean Beach (b.). DF.M.: Pilot Officer (formerly sergeant) Mikaere Tutahunga Tomika Manawaiti, Mrs I. Manawaiti, Taumarunui (m); Flight Sergeant Arthur Raymond Rowsell, Mr C. R. Rowsell, Okaihau (f.); Sergeant Robert James Carter, Mrs A. J. Carter, Taumarunui (m.); Sergeant Jonn Henry McDonald, Mr H. McDonald, Pukerau (f.).

D.S.O. TO CHAPLAIN.

AUCKLAND. May 21

The Distinguished Service Order has been awarded to a New Zealand chaplain, Rev. Henry Gordon Taylor, 8.A., vicar of Kaitaia, who was reported to have been wounded, presumably in fighting before the Mareth Line. Advice of the award was received to-day by the Bishop of Auckland (Rt. Rev. W. J. Simkin). Mr. Taylor, whose mother lives in Palmerston North, was formerly a student of Auckland University College and St. John’s College, Auckland. He volunteered for service as a chaplain immediately after the outbreak of war, was accepted in the latter part of 1940, and went through the campaigns of Greece and Crete. Letters from soldiers indicated that he served almost continuously with front-line troops throughout the fighting in Libya and Tripolitania, and was highly regarded by all ranks of the units to which he was attached.