N.Z. Aerodrome Constriction Unit Evacuated

Northern Advocate, 7 March 1942, Page 4

N.Z. Aerodrome Constriction Unit Evacuated

[Per Press Association—Copyright] WELLINGTON. This Day

A further statement concerning the welfare of officers and airmen of the New Zealand Aerodrome Construction Unit was made by the Minister for Defence (Mr. Jones) last night. Official advice, giving the names of personnel of this unit evacuated from Singapore to Australia has now been received at Air Headquarters, Wellington, and urgent telegrams have been sent to the next-of-kin.

Enquiries are being made as to the welfare of other New Zealanders who were at Singapore, and a statement will be made immediately further information is received. In the meantime correspondence should be addressed care of Air Headquarters, Wellington. The following are the officers and airmen who have been successfully evacuated to Australia. The place name given is that of the next-of-kin. Squadron-Leader Eric Copland Smart Hokitika.

Flight-Lieutenants Kenneth William Barclay Anderson. New Plymouth; Adam Gordon Begg, Dunedin; Frederick Butler, Hamilton; Maurice Beehan Furlong, Sydney; Strachan Agnew Goldingham Palmerston North.

Captains Alister Imlach McCowan, Auckland; Noel Hunter North, Blenheim, Flying-Officers Thomas Oxley Todd Beveridge, Wellington; William Arthur Gabey, Hamilton. Samuel Frederick John Goodebeheere, Feilding; Frederick de Mulford Hyde, Hamilton; Robert Roy Parsons, Auckland; Eliot Orton Sinclair, Christchurch; John James Treloar, Lower Hutt.

Warrant-Officers Lancelot John Goldsmith Baker, Wellington; Thomas Chalklen, Hamilton; William James Sturdee, Featherston.

Flight-Sergeants Michael Hugh Keegan, New Plymouth; Malcolm Telfer McLean, Wellington; Leslie Thomas Roberts, Auckland.

Sergeants Joseph Albert Campbell, Wellington; EdWin Charles Glanville, Gisborne; E. A. J. Goodwin, Wellington; Francis James Gunn, Lawrence; lan Hamilton Kitt, Hastings; Alan Morrissey, Waitoa; John Finlay Smith Neilson, Napier; Walter John Newth, Gisborne.

Corporals Hewson James Armitage, Tuakau; Gerald Harold Clay, Wanganui; Francis Leonard Cumming, Stratford; Francis Charles Gale, Auckland; John Pamoana Gilchrist, Utiku; Robert Lorenzo Hardie, Wellington; Mervyn Toyne Bernard Harris, Auckland; George Gregory Lockington, Reefton; James Brand Maclean, Masterton; Percy Pattimore Martin, Ratapiko; Harry Vincent Mephan, Auckland; Sidney Thomas Meyers, Wellington; Howard Donald Alfred Murdock, Wellington; Edward O’Brien, Auckland; Francis George Oudaille, Wellington; Ernest William Peterson, Albury; Gordon Hamilton Ross, Gisborne; Leonard Victor Semple, Wellington; Adam Stein, Stratford; Edgar Cecil Thorburn, Auckland; Teras Wockton Walls, Christchurch. Leading - Aircraftmen Ernest Cecil Achilles, Wellington; Ernest William Adiam, Midhurst; Edward Horatio Archer, Mananui; Roy Leo Armstrong, Christchurch; Lawford Wilson Barraclough, Auckland; Thomas Vivian Beard, Feilding; Charles Arnold Beatty, Levin; Edward James Boyd, Hokitika; Anthony Leonard Brown, London; William James Brown, Auckland; Eiochan Benjamin Brownlie, Palmerston North; Francis Graham Burgess, Rangiora; Joseph Gerard Byrne, lkamatua; lVlaurine Bernard Cadogan, Palmerston North; Arthur Leslie Thomas Carey, Devonport; Keitn Francis Tasman Catherall, Masterton; Leslie Alfred Chamberlain, Wanganui; Oswald Vincent Church, Wellington; William Keith Clare, Auckland; John Bryan Claydon, Christchurch; James Coffin, Ohakune; Paul Henry Colville, Christchurch; Ivan Jack Corich, Christchurch; William John Cunningham, Timaru; Ronald Coutenay Davies, Nelson; George Noel Dew, Manurewa; Noel Alwyn Dron, Nelson; Carl Henry Dyett, England; Noel East, Wellington; George Albert Engel, Johnsonville; Edward Gordon Fitzwilliam, Hamilton; Howard Thornton Day Flavell, Gisborne; Leslie Fowler, Christchurch; Bernard' Lennox ..Gardiner* Queenstown; Athol Melville Graham, Wanganui; Stanley Lawrence Graham, Shannon; Norman John Hanlon, Wellington; Brian Christopher Harbridge, Christchurch; Ralph Harland, England; Heathcote Clifford Hayward, Christchurch; Terence George Haynes, England; Donald Francis Heifer, Blenheim; Cyril Heslop Heslop, Wairoa; Hone Hikairo, Ngongotaha; Edward Thomas Hopkins, Christchurch; Ernest Humphrey Howie, Ohura; Gordon Gwynne Jones, Masterton; James Kennedy, Greymouth; Walter Leslie Kerr, Nelson; Peter Robert King, Oamaru; David Kirkcalaie, Wellington; James Kruse, Christchurch; Robert Frederick uadyman, Palmerston North; Charles Basil Lafferty, Auckland; Owen Shakespeare Lapworth, Wellington; Richard Henry Lawton, Wellington; Robert Lennox, Petone; William Little, Wellington; Allan John Lockie, Wellington; William George Lynch, Waitahuna; Allan William McArthur, Invercargill; Francis Augustine McCarthy, Auckland; Clyde Graham McCormick, Stratford; Alexander Joseph McDonald, Lake Waikaremoana; John McGilligott, Wellington; John Scott McFarlane, Nelson; Phillip George McGlone, Auckland; David Morton McMillan, Christchurch; Cyril Duncan Mcßae, Mosgiel; Andrew Isles McGuire, Hamilton; William Brown Mannington, Wellington; Noel Spencer Mills, Blenheim; Alexander Francis Moncur, Rotorua; Ronald Morris, Wellington; William Gilbert Murch, Auckland; Joseph Stewart Old, Paeroa; Gordon Terrie Peek, Greymouth; Michael Joseph Phillips, Silverstream; William Powell, Wellington; William Herbert FMchard, Ashburton; Ivor Horace Ramsay, Te Kawa; Philip Jack Ritchie, Ouruhia; Ronald Hislop Robertson, Christchurch; Eric Leslie Bevan Russell, Swanson; Robert Russell, Greymouth; Kenneth George Sharpe, Wellington; Joseph William Smith, Christchurch! Sam Smith, Petone; Daniel Stuart, Wellington; Frank Edward Steter, Auckland; Thomas Clifford Swallow, Mosgiel; John Thomson, Scotland; William Reddock Todd, Christchurch; Arthur Tombs, Wellington; Francis Gerald Upham, Paekakariki; Douglas Carley Wallace, Auckland; John Harold Wallace, Blenheim; Janies Patrick Warren, Dunedin; Thomas Albert West, Christchurch; Percy George Willis, Greymouth; Raymond Francis Wilwon, Lyttelton; James Wineera, Rotorua. Aircraftmen Leonard Arthur Gould, Wellington; Cecil ( Ronald Bourke Roche, G J^rivate t Donald Arthur Ward, Te KuiT?.