CASUALTY LIST
SECONDN.Z.E.F. WESTERN DESERT OPERATIONS OFFICER AND DRIVER KILLED IN ACTION [United Press Association] WELLINGTON. This Day. An official casualty list from the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force I in the Western Desert contains the j names of one officer and one driver killed in action Both were from Wellington. A lance-corporal from Christchurch is missing, and seven men, in'cl ..ding three from Wellington, have been wounded. The casualties are as follows: KILLED IN ACTION • Result of Enemy Air Bombs) Second-Lieutenant John Thomas Wallace. Mother: Mrs C. P. Wallace. 49 Johnsonville road. Wellington. Driver Edward William Reynolds. Brother: Mr N. Reynolds, Tramway Head Office, Suba street. Wellington. MISSING Lance-Corporal Vernon Lindsay Norrish. Father: Mr V. A. Norrish, 32 Hendon street. St. Albans. Christchurch WOUNDED (Result of Enemy Air Bombs) Driver lan Elliot Appleton. Father: IMr W. Appleton. 10 Oriental Terrace. Wellington. Drivei Edward William Boosev. Mother: Mrs K. Boosey. 9 Pinelands Avenue. Wellington. Diiver Alfred Bertram Hurst. Father: Mr G. Hurst. Springtown, Kesh P.C., care Fermanagh. North Ireland. Sergeant Christopher James Mulligan. Father: Mr C. Mulligan. Timaru road. Waimate. Corporal Osbert Thornton Pussell. Father: Mr O. Pussell, Post Office. Kimbolton. Driver Charles Henry Wall. Father: Mr F. Wall. Nukualofa. Tonga. WOUNDED IN ACTION Driver Herbert Mark Cox. Mother: Mrs M. C. Cox. 6 Fore street. Kaiwarra, Wellington R.N.Z.A.F. CASUALTIES Sergeant Christopher Falcon Scott, missing on air operations. Father: Mr J. Scott, Ruakapuka Geraldine. * Sergeant Alfred Henry Ritchie, missing on air operations. Mother: Mrs M. Ward, 72 Park Avenue. Grey Lynn, Auckland. Sergeant Errol James Peters, killed j ii. an aircraft accident. Father: Mr G. F. Peters, 66 Barrud street. Dannevirke Sergeant Herbert Malcolm McGregor English, missing on air operations. Father; Mr E, H English. Pakaututu Station, Hastings. Hawkes Bay
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 31 December 1940, Page 6
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