PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 1, 2 January 1941, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. R. Alison, formerly of Palmer* ston North, who left for England some time ago to join the Royal Navy, has been posted to a destroyer with the rank of lieutenant.

Advice was received at InvercargilL yesterday that Pilot Officer R. O. Stark is reported missing in air operations. He was a partner in the lirai of Webb and fcjtark, public accountants. He joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force as observer in Janaury, 1940, and left for England last July. With the rank of sergeant, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. W. E. Barnard, is to enter camp for three months’ training with the JSecond Hawke’s Bay Infantry Battalion at Waiouru on January (j. For this reason Mr. Barnard has abandoned liis customary cycling holiday. Driver I. E. Appleton, who has been wounded in Egypt, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Appleton, of Wellington. He attended Roseneath School and Wellington College, and on leaving college in 1931 went tanning successively at Levin, Wairoa and Wanganui. He obtained a diploma iu wool-classing at Massey Agricultural College, and when he enlisted was employed in Wellington. He left New Zealand with the First Echelon.

Driver E. W. Reynolds, who has died in Egypt as the result of enemy air bomuing, was a keen motorist and a woll-known service-car driver. He was attached to the 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company and left with the •First Echelon. He was a sou of Mrs. Reynolds, of Lyall Bay, and tne late Mr. W. Reynolds (well-known in business and, iu his younger days, as a leading cyclist), and was an old boy of Wellington College. His relatives include, m addition to ltis mother, a sister (Mrs. Annabeli, Dannevirke).

Sergeant-Gunner E. J. Peters, of Dannevirke, who has been killed in an aircraft accident in England, was in his twentieth year, and before enlisting with the Royal New Zealand Air Force shortly after the outbreak of the war was engaged in farming, being in the employ of Mr. W. N. Russell, of Mangatoro. He received his training at Levin and Ohakea, and left New Zealand for England on August 10 last. He was educated, at Dannevirke Bou'th School and Dannevirke High Schooi, where he was very popular with his schooi fellows. He was a valued member of the Young Farmers’ Club und the Tapuata Golf Club. Sergeant R. Brooke-Taylor, who lost his life in the aeroplane tragedy at Ashhurst, was a son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Brooke-Taylor, 14 Raroa Road, Keiburn, and his widow is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Kitching, Northland, Wellington. He attended the Terrace School and Wellington College, and at the outbreak of war was an optical mechanic. Being a member of the Territorial Air Force, he was called up for service on the declaration of war and had been stationed at Wigrarn nearly ever since. A few months ago he was given the rank of sergeant-pilot and posted to Ohakea. There he had been doing the work of an instructor. At Wellington College Sergeant BrookeTaylor was a champion rifle shot. His wife, who lived in Christchurch while her husband was stationed at Wigram, is now in Wellington.