AIR CASUALTIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 June 1943, Page 4

AIR CASUALTIES

23 REPORTED MISSING.

WELLINGTON, June 12

The following list of New Zealand an personnel reported casualties was issued to-day, the rank being sergeant and all Royal New Zealand Air Force unless otherwise stated:— Killed in motor-car accident: Badcock, John, Flight Sergeant, Waikaka.

Killed on active service: Gilchist, Ray Alexandra, Flight Sergeant, Matamata.

Missing on air operation: Baynton, Thomas James, Flight Sergeant, Dunedin. Bently, Robert Henry Walden, Auckland. Boswell, John McLaren, Petone. Coshall, Stanley, Flying Officer, R.A.F., Auckland. Coutts, Andrew Edward, Flight Sergeant, Whakatane. Foster, Owen Ellice, Flying Officer, Omihi. Goodfellow, William Desmond Lawrence, Auckland. Gray, Edward McLeod, Acting Flight lieutenant, Petone. Lamb, Edwin Henry Reubon, Dunedin. McLeod, William Myles, Southland. McGowan, Stuart, Flying Officer, Hastings. Penn, Thomas Alfred, Flying Officer. Christchurch. Peryman, Stanley Bailey, Flying Officer, Christchurch. Potts, James Wallace, Flight Lieutenant, R.A.F., Auckland. Ridings Desmond George, Acting Flight Sergeant, Whangarei. Smith, Cyril Richard, Miller’s Flat. Stowell, James Hampton, Flying Officer, Esk Valley. Trent, Leonard Henry, Squadron Leader, D.F.C., R.A.F., Nelson. Warner, Timothy William James, Nelson. (Irlich, Ivan Francis, Hawera. Missing on active service: Clegg, John Leonard, Flying Officer, R.A.F. V R., Christchurch. Griffiths, Eustatiu" William Barton, Squadron Leader, R.A.F.V.R., New Plymouth. Walker, William James Henry, Pilot Officer. R.A.F.V.R., Christchurch. Slightly injured on active service: Collins, Carl William, Auckland. Davis, Aitken Maxwell, Pilot Officer, Wellington. Evans, Harold James, Pilot Officer, Wellington. Seriously injured on active service: Hodge, Paul Grenville, Leading Aircraftman, Napier. Injured in motor accident: Southward, Robert Arnold, Christchurch. Previously reported missing, death now officially presumed: Brandon, Charles Henry, Flight Sergeant, Ai.ckland. Gunn, Stanley Hearne. Waikanae Beach. Roe, Ronald John, Auckland. Sutherland, Norman James, Flight Sergeant, Okauia. Previously reported missing, believed prisoner of war, now reclassified missing on active service: Clauston, Wilfred Greville, Squadron Leader, D.F.C., R.A.F., Wellington. De La Perrelle, Victor Breton, Acting Squadron Leader, R.A.F.V.R., Winton.

Previously reported missing now reclassified missing believed killed: Coates, Pilot Officer Allan Edward. Auckland. Marshall, Flight Sergeant Keith Reynold, Kaiwaka. Previously reclassified missing, believed killed; death now officially presumed: Dixon, Maxwell Wintrirgham, Flying Officer, Masterton. Tones. Rex Nigel Hugh, Cambridge. McKeen, Cyril James, Pilot Officer, Inglewood. Martin, George Wilfred. Christchurch. Nelson, George, Christchurch. N.Z.E.F. LIST WELLINGTON, June 14. The following members of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force were mentioned in a casualty list issued to-day:— Died of wounds, previously reported wounded and missing:—McCutcheon, Private James Alexander, Onehunga. Died while prisoner of war, previously reported prisoner of war.— Gambrill, Private John Reginald, Wellington. Died.—Roycroft, Sgmn. Arthur Ernest, Auckland. Died of sickness: Lockett, Gunner Edward William, Lower Hutt. Previously reported wounded, now reported not wounded: Bulmer, Private John Edward, Lower Hutt.