AIRMEN SAFE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24217, 7 March 1942, Page 6

AIRMEN SAFE

UNIT FROM SINGAPORE 153 NEW ZEALANDERS ARRIVAL IN AUSTRALIA INQUIRIES ABOUT OTHERS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Friday A further statement concerning the welfare of officers and airmen of the New Zealand aerodrome construction unit was made by the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, to-night. Official advice giving the names of personnel of this unit evacuated from Singapore to Australia has now been received at Air headquarters, Wellington, and urgent telegrams have' been sent to the next-of-kin.

Inquiries are being made as to the welfare of other New Zealanders who were at Singapore, and a statement will be made immediately further information is received. In the meantime, correspondence should be addressed care of Air Headquarters, Wellington. The following are the officers and airmen who have been successfully evacuated to Australia. The place name given i[> that of the next-of-kin: — Officers and N.C.O.'s Squadron - Leader Eric Copland Smart. Hokitika. Flight-Lieutenants Kenneth William Barclay Anderson, New Plymouth; Adam Gordon Begg, Dunedin; Frederick Butler, Hamilton; Maurice Beehan Furlong, Sydney; Strachan Agnew Goldingham, Palmerston North. Captains Alister lmlach McCowan, Auckland; Noel Hunter North, Blenheim.

Flying-Officers Thomas Oxley Tod Beveridge, Wellington; William Arthur Gaby, Hamilton; Samuel Frederick John Goodebeheere, Feilding; Frederick de Mulford Hyde, Hamilton;' Robert Roy Parsons, Auckland; Eliot Orton Sinclair, Cliristchurch; John James Treloar, Lower Hutt. Warrant Officers Lancelot John Goldsmith Baker, Wellington; Thomas Chalklen, Hamilton; William James Sturdee, Featherston. Flight-Sergeants Michael Hugh Keegan, New Plymouth; Malcolm Telfer McLean, Wellington; Leslie Thomas Roberts, Auckland. Sergeants Joseph Albert Campbell, Wellington; Edwin Charles Glanville, Gisborne; E. A. J. Goodwin, Wellington; Francis James Gunn, Lawrence; lan Hamilton Kitt, Hastings; Alan Morrissey, Waitoa; John Fin lay Smith Neilson, Napier; Walter John Newth, Gisborne.

List of Corporals Corporals Hewson James Armitage. Tuakau; Gerald Harold Clay, Wanganui; Francis Leonard Gumming, Stratford; Francis Charles Gale, Auckland: John Pamoana Gilchrist, Utiku; Robert Lorenzo Hardie, Wellington; Mervyn Toyne Bernard Harris, Auckland; George Gregory Lockington. Reefton; James Brand Maclean, Masterton; Percy Pattimore Martin, Ratapiko; Harry Vincent Mephan, Auckland; Sidney Thomas Meyers, Wellington; Howard Donald Alfred Murdock, Wellington; Edward O'Brien, Auckland; Frances George Oudaille, Wellington; Ernest William Peterson, Albury; Gordon Hamilton Ross, Gisborne; Leonard Victor Semple, Wellington; Adam Stein, Stratford; ; Edgar Cecil Thorburn. Auckland; Terras Wrocton Walls, Christchurch. THE LEADING-AIRCRAFTMEN MEN FROM MANY DISTRICTS Leading - Aircraftmen Ernest Cecil Achilles, Wellington; Ernest William Adlam, Midhurst; Edward Horatio Archer, Manunui; Roy Leo Armstrong, Christchurch; Lawford Wilson Barraclongh, Auckland; Thomas Vivian Beard, Feilding; Charles Arnold Beatty, Levin; Edward James Boyd, Ilokitika; Anthony Leonard Brown, London; William James Brown, Auckland; Eiochan Benjamin Brownlie, Palmerston North; Francis Graham Burgess, Rangiora; Joseph Gerard Byrne, Ikamatua; Maurine Bernard Cadogan, Palmerston North; Arthur Leslie Thomas Carey, Westport; Keith Frances Tasman Catherall, Masterton; Leslie Alfred Chamberlain, Wanganui; Oswald Vincent Church, Wellington; William Keith Clare, Auckland; John Bryan Claydon, Christchurch; James Coffin, Ohakuiie; .Paul Henry Colvillo, Christchurch; Ivan Jack Corich, Christchurch; William John Cunningham, Timaru; Ronald Courtenay Davies, Nelson; George Noel Dew, Manurewa; Noel Alwyn Dron, Nelson; Carl Henry Dyett, England; Noel East, Wellington; George Albert Engel, Johnsonville; Edward Gordon Fitzwilliam, Hamilton; Howard Thornton Day Flavell, Gisborne; Leslie Fowler, Christchurch;. Bernard Lennox Gardiner, Queenstown; Athol Melville Graham, Wanganui; Stanley Lawrence Graham, Shannon; Norman John Hanlon, Wellington; Brian Christopher Harbridge, Christchurch; Ralph Harland, England; Heathcote Clifford Hay ward, Christchurch; Tereilce George Haynes, England; Donald Frances Heffer, Blenheim; Cyril Hes-j lop Heslop, Wairoa; Hone, Hikairo,; Ngongotaha; Edward Thomas Hopkins, Christchurch; Ernest Humphrey Howie, Oliura; Gordon Gwynne Jones, Masterton; James Kennedy, Greymouth; Walter Leslie Kerr, Nelson; Peter Robert King, Oamaru; David Kirkcaldie, Wellington; James Kruse, Christchurch.

Robert Frederick Ladyman, Palmerston North; Charles Basil Lafferty, Auckland; Owen Shakespeare Lapworth, Wellington; Richard Henry Lawton, Wellington; Robert Lennox, Petone: William Little, Wellington; Allan John Lockie, Wellington; William George Lynch, Waitahuna; Allan William McArthur, Invercargill; Francis Augustine McCarthy, Auckland; Clyde Graham McCormick, Stratford; Alexander Joseph McDonald, Lake Waikaremoana; John McElligott, Wellington; John Scott McFarlance, Nelson; Phillip George McGlone, Auckland; David Morton McMillan, Christchurch; Cyril Duncan Mcßae, Mosgiel; Andrew Isles Maguire, Hamilton; William Brown Manning, Wellington; Noel Spencef- Mills, Blenheim; Alexander Francis Moncur, Rotorua; Ronald Morris, Wellington; William Gilbert Murch, Auckland; Joseph Stewar Old, Paeroa; Gordon Terrie Peek, Greymonth; Michael Joseph Phillips, Silverstream; William Powell, Wellington; William Herbert Prichard, Ashburton; Ivor Horace Ramsay, To Kawa; Phillip Jack Ritchie, Ouruhia; Ronald Hislop Robertson, Christchurch; Eric Leslie Bevan Russell, Swanson; Robert Russell, Greymouth; Kenneth George Sharpe, Wellington; Joseph William Smith, Christchurcb; Sam Smith, Petone; Daniel Stewart, Wellington; Frank Edward Streater, Auckland; Thomas Clifford Swallow. Mosgiel; John Thomson, Scotland; William Reddock Todd, Christchurcb; Arthur Tombs, Wellington; Francis Gerald [Jpham, Paekakariki; Douglas Carley Wallace, Auckland; John Harold Wallace, Blenheim; James Patrick Warren, Dunedin; Thomas Albert West, Christchurcb; Percy George Willis, Grevmouth; Raymond Francis Wilson, Lytteltonr James Wineera, Rotorua. , . ~ _ _ Aircraftmen Leonard Arthur Gould, Wellington; Percival Ronald Bourke Roche, Greymouth; Private Donald Arthur Ward, Te Kuiti.

HAMILTON AIRCRAFTMAN REPORT RECEIVED OF SAFETY (0.C.) HAMILTON, Friday Cabled advice that Leading-Aircraft-man Eric Innes-Jones, who was in Singapore, was safe in Australia, has been received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Innes-Jones, of Hamilton.