AIR FORCE CASUALTIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23687, 20 June 1940, Page 8

AIR FORCE CASUALTIES

POSTED MISSING FORMER TARANAKI PILOT • - 4 Cabled advice has been received ,by, Mrs'. L. B. Iteaj of Great South Road, Papatoetoe, that her son, Pilot-Officeij_ Kenneth Noel Rea, of >the; Royal Ah; Force, has been posted as missing ail the result of air operations. 1

Pilot-Officer Rea, who is 28, was born at New Plymouth! and educated! at the Boys' High School. He won a flying scholarship and was a member of the New Plymouth Aero Club prior to learing New Zealand in July, 1937, to take up a short service commission in the Royal Air Force. Be wag one of the first draft of 18 pilots to leave the Dominion for service in England. He has been on active service continuously since the outbreak of war. WELLINGTON NAMES •> ' TWO MORE PILOT-OFFICERS [BY TELEGRAPH —PBESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Wednesday Casualties involving New Zealanders in the Royal Air Force include: — Pilot-Officer Louis Reginald Jacobsen, missing. His father is Mr. .M. R- : Jacobsen, of Karaka Wellington. Pilot-Officer Neil Ewart, missingHis father is Mr. N. P. G. Ewart, of Lower Hutt, Wellington. SERVING SINGE 1935 FORIUER INVERCARGILL MAN [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION']INVERCARGILL, Wednesday Advice that his son, Flying-Officer Harold Edward Vickery, is reported missing has been received by Mr. P. H. Vickery from the Air Ministry. Flying- . Officer Vickery, aged 27, joined the Royal Air' Force in 1930, His mother is at present in England.