PILOT-OFFICER MISSING
ADVTCE FROM ENGLAND EX-AUCKLAND TEACHER NORTH SEA PATROL DUTY The news that Pilot-Officer A. J. Macdonald was reported missing as a result of an aircraft accident last Wednesday was received by his mother in Auckland by cablegram from the Air Ministry yesterday. The advice added that a letter was following, and that any further information received would be immediately forwarded. Pilot-Officer Macdonald was born in Auckland 25 years ago, and took his secondary education at the Thames High School, afterward studying at the Auckland Teachers' Training College and the Auckland University College. He occupied several teaching posts, and was on the staff of the Newton West School when he left early last year to take up Air Force training at tho Wrgram aerodrome, Christchurch. He was a pilot-officer when he went from New Zealand last February to join the Royal Air Force at Uxbridge. Since the outbreak of the war he had been stationed at Wick, in the North of Scotland, and bad been on patrol duty over the North Sea. It was presumably when be was carrying out those duties that the accident reported occurred.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23542, 30 December 1939, Page 6
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188PILOT-OFFICER MISSING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23542, 30 December 1939, Page 6
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