WAR CASUALTIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24417, 1 October 1940, Page 8

WAR CASUALTIES

DEATH IN EGYPT AN OAMARU PRIVATE (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 30. The following New Zealand Expeditionary Force casualty was announced to-night:— Private William John Orlowski. 20th Canterbury and Otagu Battalion, died in Egypt from shock following burns, the result of an accident on September 26, His father is Mr F S. Orlowski; Junction Hotel. Oamaru. KILLED IN ACTION AIRMAN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept, 30. Advice has been received that Sergeant-gunner James Bracegirdle was killed in action. He was reported missing on September 11. His father is Mr A. Bracegirdle, of Parnell. NOTED AIRMAN KILLED RELATIVES IN THE DOMINION (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH. Sept. 30. Flight-lieutenant W. H. RhodesMoorhouse, D.F.C., who was reported in to-day’s broadcast from London to have been killed in action, was a son of the late Mr William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse. the first airman to be awarded the Victoria Cross in the Great War. Flight-lieutenant W. H. Rhodes-Moorhouse, who was awarded the D.F.C. in JuV for bringing down 23 enemy machines, had many relatives in New Zealand. Mr John Rhodes, of Christchurch, is a cousin. Born in March, 1914, Flight-lieuten-and Rhodes-Moorhouse entered Eton College about 1928. Learning to fly while still a schoolboy, he gained his pilot’s certificate at the age of 16. On leaving college, he lived in London for some years, continuing to fly with the well-known aviator, Mr T. Camp-bell-Black. Later he became a test pilot in a district near London, and became a permanent member of the Royal Air Force just before the outbreak of war. In 1934 he inherited the entailed estate of his great-grandfather, Mr W. B. Rhodes, of Highland Park, Wellington. His grandfather was the late Mr Edward Moorhouse. a brother of Mr Sefton Moorhouse. In 1936 he married Miss Amalia Demetriadi. daughter of Sir Stephen Demetriadi. at that time president of the London Chamber of Commerce.

EAST CHATTON PILOT KILLED IN AIR OPERATIONS Advice was received by cablegram on Sunday from the British Air Ministry by Mr S. B. Paterson, of East Chattori, that his eldest son, Acting Flight-lieutenant James Alfred Paterson, was reported to have lost his life as a result of air operations. The cablegram staled that the Air Council expressed profound sympathy. Acting Flight-lieutenant Paterson, who would have been 21 years of age next month, joined the Royal Incw Zealand Air Force •in July, 1938, being first stationed at Taieri. He was latextransferred to W.gram, where he gained his wings, and in March, 1939, he left for England to join the Royal Air Force. He was posted to a bomber squadron, and remained with this squadron until the outbreak of war, when he was appointed officer commanding two servicing flights m France. He remained with those flights until after the capitulation of the French, and on his return to England he applied for and was appointed to a Spitfire fighter squadron. Acting .Flight-lieutenant Paterson was educated at the East Chatton School and the Gore High School. He showed more than average ability in his school work and matriculated at the latter school. He was a member of the school first fifteen