NAVAL OFFICER’S DEATH
SERVED ON NEW ZEALAND STATION • (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 21. A naval officer who formerly served for two commissions in New Zealand lost his life when the aircraft carrier Glorious was sunk as a result of naval action on June 8. He was Warrantengineer James Henry Longman, aged 40, a son-in-law of Mr G. H. Rosenfeldt, of Mount Eden. Warrant-engineer Longman was born in Hull and entered the Royal Naval School for Engineers at Chatham about 1918. He saw some service in the last war, for which he was awarded a medal. He was drafted from Bermuda Station to New Zealand in H.M.S. Dunedin as chief engineroom artificer from 1928 to 1930, when he returned to England. He served in H.M.S. Warspite. being promoted to warrant-engineer in 1931. Next year he came back to New Zealand, again serving in the Dunedin until 1935, when he was drafted to England. He then joined the seaplane carrier Pegasus, in which he remained until being transferred to the Glorious in December, 1937. Warrant-engineer Longman married Miss Dorothy Rosenfeldt, who is new resident in Gillingham, Kent.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24336, 28 June 1940, Page 6
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