LOST AT SEA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 10 August 1942, Page 4

LOST AT SEA

WIFE OF COLONEL DUFF FORMER NELSONIAN Advice has been received by Colonel C. J. Duff, R.N.Z.A., commander of artillery in one of the New Zealand home defence divisions, that his wife, Section Officer Florence Du if. W.A.A.F., hi., been lost at sea as the result of enemy action. Section Officer Duff accompanied her husband to India in 1937, and went on with him to England in January, 1939. She joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force there in Mav, 1939. On 4th September, 1939, she was mobilised as a cook, obtained her commission as a cipher officer in 1940, and before leaving Britain was messing officer for all ranks on a large Royal Air Force station. She was returning to New Zealand to take up similar duties with the women’s forces in the Dominion and to join her husband, who recently returned from active service with the New Zealand Division in the Middle East. Section Officer Duff was the second daughter of the late Hon. W. W. Snodgrass, M.L.C., of Nelson. She was educated at Nelson Girls’ College. Mrs Duff’s two brothers, Captain F. Snodgrass (N.Z.E.F.) and Corporal Charles Snodgrass (A.1.F.) are both serving in the Middle East. Mrs N. Rout and Miss W. Snodgrass, of Nelson, are sisters. I