ROYAL AIR FORCE
NEW ZEALANDERS IN IRAQ (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. Ah arrival to-day by the Makura from Sydney was Flying-Officer W. B. Hooper, of Ne.w Plymouth, who has been with a bombing transport squadron of the R.A.F. in Iraq during the past eighteen months. He spends a month with relatives in New Zealand before proceeding to England to undergo an instructor’s course at the Central Flying School. He stated there were three other New Zealanders in the squadron, Iraq No. 70, these being Trewby (Mangaweka), Calder (Christchurch), and Lamb (Wairarapa).
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 3 September 1934, Page 2
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