MISSING AIRMEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24628, 6 July 1943, Page 5

MISSING AIRMEN

ONE NOW A PRISONER WING COMMANDER'S DEATH Reported missing on air operations, Flying-Officer Gordon Wallace Cammell, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Cammell, of St. Heliers Bay, Auckland. After gaining his commission in New Zealand in April, 1942, he left for England, and was promoted to the rank of flying-officer in January this year at the age of 19. He was educated at St. Heliers School and Auckland Grammar School.

Wing Commander F. C. Seavill, previously reported missing and whose death has now been officially presumed, joined the Royal Air Force in 1930 and later went to Aden. After two years there he was transferred to the central flying school on his return to England and was in training command headquarters until the outbreak of war. He was then sent on loan to Canada in connection with tho Empire Air Training plan. He was appointed deputyDirector of Organisation at R.C.A.F. Headquarters, Ottawa, where he stayed for 27 months. Returning to England, Wing Commander Seavill carried out a refresher course at the Wellington bomber operational training unit. On October 12. 1942, it was announced that he had been appointed commanding officer of a bomber squadron, this being the sixth New Zealand squadron to be formed in England.

Previously reported missing and now confirmed as a prisoner of war, Squad-ron-Leader L. H. Trent, D.F.C., of the Royal Air Force, went to France the day before war broke out and flew Fairev* Battles. He carried out photographic reconnaissance over Germany and returned to England in December, 1939. Transferring to Blenheims, he participated in 14 raids, including the famous attack on the Maastricht Bridge, when onlv six out of 12 planes returned. He helped to cover the retreat from Dunkirk. Squadron-Leader Trent took part in the first raid carried out by Bostons over France, and operated against the warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Etigeu during their last voyage through the English Channel. Later he was posted to the Officers' Training Unit as instructor and afterward was control officer in Headquarters Operations Room. A New Zealander hailing from Nelson, he was appointed to command a flight in the sixth New Zealand squadron formed in Britain. Previously reported missing, now reclassified killed in action, Private L. D. Evans was the youngest son of Mrs. A Evans and the late Mr. A. Evans, of 51 Wallace Road, Papakura. Private Evans was aged 25 and was educated at the Papakura School and the Pukekohe High School. He played League football for Papakura. Private Evans left New Zealand last December and was killed in action in the Tunisian campaign.

Reported missing, believed drowned on active service, Flight-Sergeant John Lincoln Chandler is the second son ol Mrs. A. E. E. Dodd, formerly of Epsom and now of Tapu, Thames, and of the late Mr. F. F. Chandler. He was educated at Vasanta Garden School, Auckland Grammar School and Auckland University College, which ho represented in Rugby and boxing. Flight/-Sergeant Chandler's ship was torpedoed while he was on his way to England a year ago and he and his companions were adrift in mountainous seas for four days and four nights before being rescued by a Norwegian ship and landed at New York. Flight-Ser-geant Chandler's elder brother, PilotOfficer E. F. Chandler, was reported missing, believed killed, on operations over France in April, 1942. Ho has two sisters serving overseas. HUSBANDS A NUISANCE WIVES FIND A WAY OUT Many wives say their husbands are more trouble when they're in bed with a cold than half a dozen children. All the more reason to get him well in double-quick time and pack him off to work. Keep the good man in bed. and see that he keeps up a steady sip, sip, sip, with a bottle of Bonnington's Irish Moss. The powerful, soothing pectoral oxymel of carrageen will flow over the inflamed membranes with a delightful, soothing effect. Then the choking, germ-laden congestion begins to shift, and when that goes the cold, cough or 'flu will go pretty soon, tool Do not accept anything but the "real thing'' —Bonnington's Irish Moss, as prepared by Geo. Bonnington, Ltd., Cashel Street, Christchurch, and sold everywhere. —Advt.