AIR CASUALTIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25241, 2 June 1943, Page 3

AIR CASUALTIES

FIVE OTAGO NAMES IN LIST (P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 1. Tlie following air casualties were announced to-day (all are members of the R.N.Z.A.F. and the rank is sergeant unless otherwise, stated) OTAGO MISSING ON AIR OPERATIONS Cross, Pilot Officer Sydney Nelson; father. Mr J. J. Cross, Balclutha. McNarey, Flight Lieutenant David lan; - father, Mr J. McNarey, Dunedin. DEATH NOW OFFICIALLY PRESUMED (Previously Reclassified as Missing, Believed Killed) , Bowker, Flight Sergeant Thomas Layton, Dunback. (Previously Reported Missing) James, Pilot Officer Victor Dennis, Middlemarch. (Previously Reported Missirtg, Believed Killed) Paape, Flying Officer John Mitchell, Dunedin. OTHER DISTRICTS MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE Chancellor, Flying Officer R. N., Northern Ireland. MISSING ON AIR OPERATIONS Bennett, Thomas Samuel Eric, Lower • Hutt. ! Cobb, Cyril Thomas, Thames. Cottrell. Flight Sergeant S. G.j Wellington. Elliott. Pilot Officer R. F., Waimauku. Ellis. Flight Lieut. George Ivan, Timaru. Lankshear, Ernest Howard, Feilding. Marshall James Robert, Wyndham. Salt, lan Charles, Wellington. Scrymgeour, Flying Officer D. R., Wellington. Tolley, Pilot Officer A. G., Wellington. Upton, Frank Wakefield, Christchurch. DEATH NOW OFFICIALLY PRESUMED (Previously Reclassified as Missing, Believed Killed) Lumsden, James Flers, Wanganui. Martin, George Edward, Eltham. Piper, Charles Cecil, Taumarunui. Spence, Pilot Officer N., Christchurch." . Swindlehurst, Reginald Frederick, Stratford. 0