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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 133, 7 May 1945, Page 4

PERSONAL

The appointment of Wing-Commander T J. Mac Lean de Lange, D.F.C., to the recently established post ol New Zealand liaison officer, India, is announced by the Minister of Defence. In August, 1944, Wing-Commander de Lange attended a course at the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, U.S.A., from which he returned to' New Zealand recently. He has now taken up his duties in India. Wing-Commandcr de Lange was horn at Simla in 1914 and educated at Truro College, England, and the Auckland Grammar School. His father, Mr H. J. Mac Lean de Lange. formerly director of finance to the Railway Board, India, lives in Auckland.

Mr and Mrs C. Browning, of Kairanga, have received the welcome advice that their second son,. Pilot-Officer Robert Byron Browning, has been released from a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany and is now safe .in Allied hands. Pilot-Officer Browning. who received his education at the Newbury School and the Palmerston North Boys' High School (where he matriculated) was engaged with his father in farming before joining the R.N.Z.A.F. over four years ago. After graining in New Zealand ho proceeded to England, arriving there on Christmas Day, 1941. Spending about a year in Britain, he next went to the .Middle East, and was shot down and taken prisoner during the final offensive which liberated North Africa. Mr Thomas Henry Wilmshurst, who died in palmerston North recently, aged 93, was .one of the first white children horn at Johnsonville, his father having arrived at Wellington in the Lord William Bentinck in 1840, and his mother, whose maiden name was Rachel Mudgway, in the Catherine Stewart Forbes a year later. Mr Wilmshurst had some experience in the Maori wars of the late 1860's. After farming at Tawa Flat for some years he moved to the Wairarapa, finally farming in the Wajkato till he retired in 1935. Since then he had lived in Palmerston North. Twice married, Mr Wilmshurst brought up a numerous family. A brother, Mr William Edwin Wilmshurst, of Petone, and a sister, Mrs Rosina Webb, of Palmerston North, survive him.

Private Joseph H. Aldersley, who died of wounds in Italy on April 10, was the second son of Mr and Mrs J. H. Aldersley, of 46 Main Street, Palmerston North. Private Aldersley was an old. boy of the Longburn School and the Palmerston North Technical School, and prior to his enlistment was employed by Messrs Alexander Clark, Ltd. He was a keen member of the Longburn Tennis and Miniature Rifle Clubs and was lion, secretary of the latter for a number of years.' He had served in the Pacific for two and threequarter years and proceeded to the Middle East only four months ago. Private Aldersley's brother. Sergeant W. J. Aldersley, has just returned from the Middle East after seeing four years' service. Mr and Mrs Aldersley have received the sympathy of a wide circle of friends.