WHANGAREI AIRMEN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 13 October 1941, Page 6

WHANGAREI AIRMEN

TWO RECEIVE AWARDS Whangarei, This Day. Two Whangarei airmen. Squadron Leader Derek Ward and Squadron Leader Douglas Morrish have received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Aii Force Cross respectively, according to official cables received to-day. Squadron Leader Ward has been in the fighting throughout the war and is now commander in the Middle East of a squadron known as “Cobber Kain’s.” Squadron Morrish has been instructor at a flying school iu the north of England since shortly after the outbreak of war. A large number of New Zealanders have passed through his hands. PORTIONS OF PLANE W ASHED ASHORE Masterton, This Day. A wheel, struts and portions of a wing of an aeroplane were found washed up on the beach at Cape Palliser on Saturday afternoon. The Air Department were advised and instructions have been sent for the pieces of wreckage to be forwarded to Welling ton for identification. TRAINING PILOT FATALLY INJURED New Pl>mouth. This Day. Leading Aircraftman Ronald Thomas 1 Bransgrove. 'aged 22, received fatal m- : juries at Kawaroa Park. New Ply- : mouth, yesterday afternoon when a j swing he was riding on collapsed and 1 iie fell head first on to the concrete. ! fracturing the base of his skull. The | accident occurred at 3.45 o’clock af d without regaining consciousness he died I in the New Plymouth hospital at 6.30 o'clock. . .. ! While he was using one of the two : big swings one of the vertical iron bars holding the seat snapped and Bransgrove was pitched to the ground. He was in training as a pilot at No. 2 | Elementary Flying Training School. Bell Block—P.A. AIR CASUALTIES Wellington, This Day. The following air casualties were officiallv announced to-day Pilot Officer Douglas James Jamieson. R.N.Z.A F.. previously reported missing, believed killed, death now officially presumed to have occurred in July. * Mrs J. Jamieson, Christchurch (wife'. . Sergeant Douglas Portcous, R.N Z.A.F., previously reported missing, now reclassified as interned. Mr J. B. Porteous. Dunedin (father).