NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 March 1945, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES

AIR FORCE LIST. WELLINGTON, March 21. The following R.N.Z.A.F. casualty list was issued to-day: Killed:—Thorpe, Pilot Officer Noel Humphrey, Auckland. Willcox, Flying Officer- Anthony Dennis, Timaru. . Missing believed Killed: Benett, Flying Officer Henry James, Southland. Hallett, Flight Sergeant Ronald' Ernest, Hastings. .Hardman, Flight Lieutenant Frank,- Auckland. Umbers, Squadron , Leader Arthur Ernest, D.F.C. and Bar, Dunedin. Missing: Arnold, Flying Officer William Reginald, Gisborne. Balfour, Pilot Officer James Douglas, Blenheim. Bennett, Warrant Officer Lionel John, Whangarei. Butler, Flight Sergeant Brian Leonard, Waitara. Clark, Pilot Officer Robert John, Auckland. Davies, Acting-Flight Lieutenant George Stanley, Dunedin. Grubb, Warrant Officer James Harold, Wanganui. Gutzewitz, Flying Officer James Leslie, Bluff. Greenough, Flight Sergeant Claude Cuthbe’rt, Auckland. Henry, Squadron Leader David John Verdun D.F.C., Invercargill. Hoare, Flight Sergeant Arthur Percy, Auckland. Hooper, Pilot Officer Garnet John, -Wellington. Knight, Flying Officer Robert Baines, Auckland. Lamont, Flight Sergeant John, Auckland. McGinn, Flight Sergeant James Martin Manning, Christchurch. ■ McPherson, Warrant Officer Eric William, Rotorua. Mangos, Flight Lieutenant Kenneth, Christchurch. Miller, Flight Lieutenant William Lister, Invercargill, Morris, Flying Officer John Moore, Cambridge. O’Brien, Pilot Officer Leo Patrick, Wellington. Olds. Flight Sergeant Frederick Rossini, Christchurch. Stuart, Flying Officer Leo Bruce, Auckland. Tarrant, ActingFlying Officer Thomas Stephen Archer, New Plymouth. Taylor, Flying Officer Donald Graeme Lane, Cambridge. Taylor, Flight Sergeant John Alan, Auckland. Temperton, Pilot Officer Evan Claude, Gisborne. Thiele, Squadron Leader Keith Frederick, D. 5.0., D.F.C. and Bar, Christchurch. Wilkinson, Flying Officer James Stewart, Wellington.

Seriously injured: McCabe; Flying Officer Owen- James, Whangarei. Killed, previously reported missing: Tasker, Flying Officer Bernard Cyril. Wanganui. Presumed dead, previously reported missing believed drowned: Cameron, Sergeant Ewen Eric, Riversdale. Presumed dead, previously reported missing: Bruhns, Pilot Officer Harold Henry, Mosgiel. Presumed dead, previously reclassified missing believed killed: Collyns, Flight Lieutenant Basil Gordon, Blenheim. Durie, Flight Sergeant Basil Gordon, Blenheim. Durie, Flight Sergeant Thomas Kerr, Napier. Forsyth, Flying Officer Colin Leo Malcolm, D.F.M. Tauranga. Gover, Pilot Officer Cedric Charles William, Auckland. Hay, Flying Officer Balfour Richard John, D.F.C.j Auckland. Larnach, Flight Sergeant Francis Magnus, IVellington. Marshal, Squadron Leader Trevor Owen, D.T.C., Wellington. Pepper, Flight Sergeant Douglas Reid Havelock North. Richardson, Flight Sergeant. Graham Speedy, Masterton. Robinson, Flight Lieutenant Maldon Ulisse, Palmerston North. X e J T c ” s Flight Sergeant Peter Newman. NeiS °Missing, believed killed in action, previously reported missing: Beazer, Flving Officer Ronald Charles Ostend, Feeding. Browne, Flying 9 ffi cer Grant Wallace, Auckland. Hams, Pilot Of fleer Donald Keith, Palmerston North. Morgan Flight Sergeant Robert CaiHampton, Auckland. Newman, Warrant Officer James Albert, Gisborne. Veitch, Flying Officer Reginald Clive, W Confi t rmed prisoner of war previouslv reported missing: Wilson, Act-ing-Flight Lieutenant Anthony John Rees. Wellington. . • ’ Removed from all lists, previously reported seriously ill: Leading Aircraftman Alexander Keith, Auckland. NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES Seriously injured: Cruickshank, Corporal Gladys Amelia, Stratioid. Removed from all lists, previously reoorted seriously ill: Falla, Flying Officer Hugh Rabey, Auckland.