AIR CASUALTIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25277, 14 July 1943, Page 2

AIR CASUALTIES

THREE OTAGO NAMES IN LIST (P.A.) WELLINGTON. July 13. The following air personnel are mentioned in casualty lists issued to-day (all are members of the R.N.Z.A.F and the rank is sergeant unless otherwise stated): OTAGO MISSING ON ACTIVE SERVICE Valentine. Pilot Officer James Archibald: father, Mr A. G. Valentine, Dunedin. KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE Clements, Flight Sergeant Clement Frederick; mother, Mrs S. Clements, Kaitangata. DEATH NOW PRESUMED (Previously Reported Missing) Byers. Pilot Officer Robert William, Dunedin. OTHER DISTRICTS LIST I MISSING ON ACTIVE SERVICE Appleby, Bruce: The Levels, Canterbury. Buchanan, Douglas Kenneth, Takapuna. Mottram, Ernest William, Auckland. Rainger. Richard Edwin. Auckland. Thompson, Claude Goodwin, Christchurch. Winstone, Squadron Leader B. C. (R.A.F.), Christchurch. SERIOUSLY ILL, ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL • Henderson, Flight Sergeant Francis Murray, Whakatane. DEATH NOW PRESUMED (Previously Reclassified as Missing. Believed Killed) Dimock, Vallance A. 0., Wellington. Martin, Flight Lieut. Barry, D.F.C., Christchurchi Tonkins, Douglas Noel,' Hastings. PRISONERS OF WAR (Previously Reported Missing, Believed Prisoner) Krause, Flying Officer A. C„ Auckland. Scales. Pilot Officer Sydney E„ Timaru. LIST II MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED (Previously Reported Missing) O’Neil, Ronald, Lower Hutt. DEATH NOW PRESUMED (Previously Reported Missing) Cunningham, Flying Officer Godfrey Melville, Hastings. Gould, James Douglas, Otautau. Hirst, Raymond John Finlay, Papakura. Lowther, Flight Sergeant Peter Desmond, Auckland. Smith, Selwyn Clarence, Winton. Wilmshurst, John Charles, Stratford. (Previously Reported Missing, Believed Killed) Aslnvin, Eric Lumley Durham, Auckland. Jacobson, Flying Officer Gerald Howard, Akaroa. McAlpine, Pilot Officer Walter Duncan, Christchurch. Stokes, Wallace Frederick, Auckland. White, William George Henry, Kutarcra.