BURSARY AWARD

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25180, 18 April 1945, Page 6

BURSARY AWARD

HAMILTON AIRMAN TWO YEARS AT CAMBRIDGE (P.A.) WELLINGTON. Tuesday The award of a bursary, tenable for two years at King's College, Cambridge, to Flight-Lieutenant D. H. Tudhope, D.F.C. and bar, of Hamilton, has been approved by the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones. The bursary is worth £IOO a jyear. oome time ago the New Zealand War Cabinet decided that five bursaries offered by the authorities of King's College should be available to Army, Navy and Air Force disabled personnel. The Minister later ruled that personnel unaffected by war injuries should also be eligible. Ordinary service pay and allowances are to be drawn by the bursar; - holders. " Flight - Lieutenant Tudhope was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in June, 1944, and received a bar to the decoration last February., The citation to the latest award states that he had completed many more operational sorties since the award of the D.F.C. The targets included Berlin.

"Throughout, his unflagging enthusiasm, efficiency and exemplary courage in the face of enemy opposition have proved a high example to all," the citation adds. Flight-Lieutenant Tudhope was recommended for the bursary bv the High Commissioner in London, Mr W. J. "Jordan, and the R.N.Z.A.F. headquarters. His father is Mr W. Tudhope, Roetrevor Street, Hamilton. Born in Hamilton about 23 years ago, Flight-Lieutenant Tudhope was educated at the Hamilton High School, Wanganui Collegiate School and Auckland University College, where he was a law student. He joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1941. He gualified at the top of his class 'in anada and received his wings before leaving there fo. England. He has flown a Mosquito ngnter-bomher on many operational flights over Germany.