NOW IN AUSTRALIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24859, 7 March 1942, Page 4

NOW IN AUSTRALIA

DOMINION AIR FORCE PARTY EVACUATED FROM SINGAPORE PERSONNEL ANNOUNCED (PA.) WELLINGTON. Mar. 6; - A further statement concerning the welfare of the officersjflfl. men of the New Zealand Aerodrjfie /Construction Unit was made by the Minister of Defence, Mr F. Jones, to-night. Official advice giving the names of the personnel of this unit evacuated from Singapore to Australia has-now been received by 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 is a list of the officers and men of the Aerodrome Construct tion Unit who- have been successfully evacuated to Australia (the place name given is that of the next-of-kinJ:—■ Squadron Leaders-Smart, Eric Copland, Hokitika; '

Flight Lieutenants.—Anderson, Kenneth William Barclay, New Plymouth; Begg, Adam Gordon, Dunedin; Butler; Frederick, Hamilton; Furlong, Maurice Beehan, Sydney;. Goldinghan. Strachan Agnew, Palmerston North.

Captains.—McCowan, AHister Imlach, Auckland; North, Noel Hunter, Blenheim. Flying Officers.—Beveridge, Thomas Oxley Tod, Wellington;; Gaby, William Arthur, Hamilton; Goodebeheere, Samuel Frederick . John, : Feilding; Hyde, Frederick de Mulford, Hamilton; Parsons, Robert Roy, Auckland; Sinclair; Eliot Orton, Christchurch; Treloar, John James, Lower Hutt. ' .»■',.

Warrant Officers.—Baker, Lancelot John Goldsmith, Wellington; Chalklen, Thomas, Hamilton: Sturdee, William James. Featherston. ; Flight Sergeants.—Keegan, Michael Hugh, New Plymouth; McLean, Malcolm Telfer, Wellington: Roberts, Leslie Thomas, Auckland. **' '.'.'." ; '

Sergeants.—Campbell, Joseph Albert, Wellington; Glahville, Edwin' Charles, Glsborne; Goodwin, E.; A. J„ Wellington; Gunn, Francis James," Lawrence; Kltt, lan Hamilton, Hastings; Morrissey, Alany Waitoa; Neilson, John/Finlay Smith,. Napier; Newth, Walter Jot*, Gisborne. " : Corporals.—Armitage, Hewsoh James. Tuakau;. Clay, Gerald Harold, Wanganui; Cummins, Francis Leonard, Stratford; Gale, Francis Charles, Auckland; Gilchrist, John Pamoana, TJtiki; Hardie, Robert Lorenzo, Wellington; Harris, Mervyu Toyne Bernard, Auckland; Lockington, George. Gregory, Reef ton; . Mac Lean, James Brand, Masterton; Martin, Percy Pattimore, Ratapikoj" Mephan,""Harry Vincent, Auckland; Meyers, Sidney Thomas, Wellington; Murdock, Howard -Donald Alfred, Wellington; O'Brien, Edward,. Auckland; Oudaille, Frances George*, Wellington; Peterson* Ernest .William, Albury; Ross, Gordon Hamilton. Gisborne; Semple, Leonard Victor, Wellington; Stein/ Adam, Stratford; Thorburn, Edgar Cecil, Auckland; Walls, Terras Wrocton,' Christchurch. ••'■■-.■ :■: :■■ .-.■•.' ..:-;-•.. -v>;.-

Leading Aircraftmen.— Achilles, Ernest Cecil, WellingtohYAdlam, Ernest William.. Midhurst; Archer, Edward Horatio. Martunui; Armstrong, Roy Leo, Christchurch. ~;•

Barraclough, Lawford Wilson, Auckland; Beard, Thomas Vivian, Feilding, Beatty, Charles Arnold, Levin; Boyd. Edward James, Hokitika; Brown, Anthony Leonard, London; Brown, William James. Auckland; Brownlie. Eidchari Benjamin, Palmertson North; Burgess, , Francis Graham, Rangiora; Byrne, Joseph Gerard. IksiricitUsi. Cadogan, Maurice Bernard, Palmerston North; Carey, Arthur Leslie Thomas. Westport; Catherall, Keith Francis Tasman; Masterton; Chamberlain, Leslie Alfred, Wanganui;. Church, Oswald Vincent, Wellington; Clare, William Keith, Auckland: Clay don, John Bryan, Christchurch; Coffin, James, Ohakune; Colville. Paul Henry, Christehurch; Corich; Ivan Jack,. Christehurch; Cunningham, William John, Timaru. Davies, Ronald Courtenay, Nelson; Dew, George Noel, Mahurewa; Dron, Noel AlWyn, Nelson; Dyett, Carl Henry, Eng-. land.'-'' ~ ?•;•'/ ■ -.'-•■ '■■'. ■ •' _'■' •■..'. East, Noel, Wellington;- Engel, George Albert,' Johnsonville. £ :■.■'.. Fitzwilliam, Edward Gordon, Dunedin; Flavell, Howard Thornton Day, Gisborne; Fowler, Leslie. Christehurch. ~'-'. .* Gardiner, Bernard Lennox, .Queenitown; Graham.- Athol Melville, Wanganui; Graham, Stanley Lawrence/ Shannon. HanlotW Norman John. Wellington; Harbridge, Brian Christopher, Christehurch; Harland. Ralph, England;, Hayward, Heathcote Clifford. Christehurch; .Hayries, Terence George Ehgland; Heffer. gonald Francis, Blenheim! Heslop, Cyril Heslop. Wairoa; Hikairo; Hone, 'Ngongotaha; Hopkins. Edward Thomas, Christehurch; Howie, Ernest Humphrey, Jones, Gordon Gwynne, Masterton. . Kennedy, John, Greymouth; ;Kerr, Walter Leslie, Nelson; King, Peter Robert Oamaru; Kirkaldie, David, Wellington. Kruse, James, Christehurch. Ladyman, Robert Frederick, Palmerston North; Lafferty, Charles Basil, Auckland. Lapworth, Owen Shakespeare, WeHington. Lawton, Richard Henry WelUngton. Lennox! Robert, Petone; Little. Wil am, Wellington; Lockie, Alan John, .Wellington; Lynch. William George, Waitahuna. McArthur. Allah William. .Invercargill; McCarthy, Francis Augustine, Auckland; McCormick, Clyde. Graham, Stratford, McDonal, Alexander Joseph Lake Waikaremoana; McElligott, John. Wellington, McFarlane.. John Scott, Nelson; McGlone, Phillip George, Auckland; McMillan, David Morton. Christehurch; Mcßae, Cyril Duncan, Mosgiel; Macguire, Andrew Isle. Hamilton: Manning, William Brown, Wellington; Mills, Noel Spencer, Blenheim: Moncur. Alexander Francis, Rotorua; Morris. Ronald, Wellington; Murcn. William Gilbert, Auckland. Old. Joseph Stewart, Paeroa. . ■. Peek Gordon Terrie. Greymouth; Phillips. Michael Joseph, Silverstream; Powell. William. Wellington: Pnchard. William Herbert. Ashburton. ...... Ramsay. Ivor Horace. Te Kawa; Ritchie. Phillip Jack. Ouruhia; Robertson, Ronald Hislop, Christehurch: Russell, Eric Leslie Bevan, Swanson; Russell. Robert. Greymshar'pe, Kenneth George, Wellington; Smith Joseph > - William. Christehurch; Smith, Sam, Petone; Stewart,.-Darnel. Wellington; Streater, Frank Edward. Auckland; Swallow, Thomas Clifford, Mosgiel. Thomson, John, Scotland; Todd, William Reddock, Christehurch; Tombs.

Arthur, Wellington.. . • ; . "..,. . ■ Upham, Francis Gerald, Paekakarikl. Wallace, Douglas Carley, Auckland: Wallace, John Harold, Blenheim; Warren, James Patrick, (Dunedin; West, Thomas Albert. Christchurch; Willis, Percy George, Greymouth; Wilson, Raymond Francis, Lyttelton; Wineera, James, RotoAircraftmen—.Gould, Leonard Arthur. Wellington; Roche, Percival- Ronald Bourke,". Private.—Ward, Donald ..ArtlunY;-?!* 5 Kuiti. :• -' T- . "•'"•' :;-;;j- r :.■'■.'