N.Z. Airman Gets.D.F.M.
WELLINGTON, 'This Day. For “gallantry and devotion to duty,” Corporal C. B. G. Knight, of Picton, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal, He is the first airman or non-com-missioned officer of the Royal Navy Zealand Air Force to receive a decoration, although other New Zealanders serving with the Royal Air Force have won awards. In February, 1939, Corporal Knight was sent to the United Kingdom as a wireless operator for service with the Vickers-Wellington bomhfers, which were to have been flown to. New Zealand. Then, together with other person- j nel of the Royal New Zealand Airi Force, who were in Britain, he was j made available to the Air Ministry j for employment with the Royal Air, Force, with which some hundreds of] New Zealanders were already serv-i •Ing. • ,1 No details are available regarding] the circumstances under which Cor-j poral Knight won the decoration oth-j er than the official statement, “for gallantry and devotion to duty.”
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Northern Advocate, 21 February 1940, Page 4
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162N.Z. Airman Gets.D.F.M. Northern Advocate, 21 February 1940, Page 4
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