N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES

Grey River Argus, 16 May 1941, Page 4

N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES

LATEST LISTS Twelve Names [Per Press Association] WELLINGTON, May 15. The following casualties to members of the Second N.Z.E.F. have beer, reported to-day:— KILLED IN ACTION. Lieutenant Nigel Reay McKay. Father, Mr. C. McKay, Waipu. Private Francis Charles Bloxsome. Father, Mr. F. H. Bloxsome, Auckland. ' Private James Andrew Green. Mother, Mrs. W. Hanson, Bluff. Lance-Corporal Norman Ernest Lovell. /-Father, Mr. E. A. Lovell, Inglewood. DIED OF WOUNDS. Private James Collingwood. Friend, Mr. J. J. Grab, Matamata. WOUNDED. Second . Lieutenant Sidney George Lyle Smythe. Father, Mr. W. S. Smythe, England. Sergeant Frederick Borrows. Mother, Mrs. J. C. A. Borrows, England. Private Hank Cairney. Mother, Mrs. J. Cairney, Canada. Private Albert Mitchell Dobson. Wife, Mrs. I. A. M. Jobson, Whangarei. Sergeant William Bruce Myers Freney. Next-of-kin,' relationship not stated, Mrs. T. S. Howe, Auckland. Lance-Corporal Edwin Mitchelson Taylor. Sister, Mrs. Z. Higgins, Auckland. Lance-Sergeant Clifford . Bruce Wallace. Father, Mr. J. A. Wallace, Auckland. Further List NINE KILLED—2I WOUNDED. WELLINGTON, May 15. The following additional casualties to members of the Second N.Z.E.F. are reported;— KILLED IN ACTION. Privat e Laurence Brian Bosworth. Father: L. A. Bosworth, Opunake. Private Herbert Henry Burgess. Mother; Mrs L. Burgess, Mangamaire, Pahiatua. 1 Sergeant John Stanley Horton Dring. Wife: Mrs A ,D. Dring, Masterton. Sergeant Thomas Logie. Wife: Mrs C. D. Logie, Lower Hutt, i Private John O’Brien. Mother: Mrs Putu O’Brien, Tepuke. Lance Corporal Allen Edward O’Neill. Father: E. H. O’Neill, Temuka. Lance Corporal George Murray Sandiford. Father: G. H. Sandiford, Waitotara. Private John Ross Tustin. Motner: Mrs A. M. Tustin, Wellington. Private Douglas Wilson. Wife: Mrs M. Wilson, Wellington. PRISONER OF WAR. Reginald Henry Powell. Wife: Mrs E. M. Powell, Hawera WOUNDED. Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Graeme Carruth. Mother: Mrs M. E. Carruth, Wainui, Whangarei. Captain William Richard Kimmitt Morrison. Father: William Morrison, Auckland. . . Private Thomas Harold Douglas Clark. Mother: Mrs Jessie Clark, Waimate. Private Jack Cockcroft. Wife: Mrs H. Cockcroft, Upper Hutt. Gunner Henry Edward Denyer. Wife: Mrs P. V. Denyer, Auckland. Sergeant Douglas Gordon Dillon. Mother: Mrs E. A. Dillon, Otane. Private Douglas Lloyd ' George Father: A. George, Moturoa. i Driver Arthur William Hearn. Mother: Mrs Eliza Hearn, Waihi Private William Arthur Johnson. Father: G. W. Johnson, Lumsden. Prvate Alexander George Leslie Lambert. Mother: Mrs M. Lambert, Hawera. Private Charles Stewart Lovett. .Brother: W. J. Lovett, Aramoho. Corporal Christopher John McCarthy. Wife: Mrs A. E. McCarthy, Auckland. Corporal. Harold Marshall. Wife: Mrs 1 H. M. Marshall, Auckland. Lance-Sergeant lan Brown Munro. Brother: Capt. A. Munro, North Head, Auckland. Private George Henry Peacock, Brother: E. Peacock, Hihitahl. Pr’vate Charles Adair Pistor. Mother: Mrs E. Pistor. Gisborne.

.Sapner Stanley Barrington Reitman. ' Father: A. Reitman, Tht-.-nes. Private David George Will'am Smyth. Mother: Mrs I. K. Smyth, Dunedin.

Private John James Tregea. Wife: Mrs E. C. Tregea, Tahuna, Dunedin.

Sapper Roger William Turner. Next of kin: Mrs N. J. Patrick, Christchurch (relationship unstated). Private Sydney Alexander Wright. Father: W. C. Wright, Mangere. N.Z. AIRMEN KILLED. WELLINGTON, May 15. The following Air Force casualties are officiary anounneed:— Pilot Officer Norman Mervyn Kebbell Kirkcaldie, R.N.Z.A.F. —Missing on air operations. Next of kin: N. Kirkcaldie, 80 Hobson St., Wellington (mother). > Sergeant James Clark Cattell, R.N.Z.A.F. —Now reclassified as missing, believed killed. Next of kin: M. E. Cattell, 43 Messines Road, Karori (mother). Sergeant Basil Alexander Walker, R.N.Z.A.F. —Killed on air operations. Next of kin: K. Walker, 39 Cameron Road, Napier (mother). Sergeant Norman Franklin Dixon, R.N.Z.A.F. —Killed on air operations. Next of kin: C Dixon, 138 Earn St., Invercargill (father).

Private advice .was received, today/ that Private S. B. Gurden, son of Sergeant and Mrs. S. Gurden, of Greymouth, has been discharged from hospital. Private Gurden was included among the wounded in Monday’s list of N.Z.E.F. casualties.