AIR FORCE PERSONNEL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25659, 6 October 1944, Page 6

AIR FORCE PERSONNEL

SIX OTAGO MEN IN LIST (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 5. The following New Zealand air personnel serving overseas were reported casualties to-day (the rank is flight sergeant unless otherwise stated): — OTAGO KILLED IN ACTION Hogg, Pilot Officer M. L.; father, Mr G. Hogg, Dunedin. s KILLED ON AIR OPERATIONS Henderson, Colin Selkirk; mother, Mrs M. Henderson, Dunedin. Phelan, Warrant Officer Mervyn John Lyndon; father, Mr C. Phelan, Dunedin. CONFIRMED AS PRISONERS OF WAR (Previously Reported Missing) Ellison, Flying Officer Noel Russell, Dunedin. Fels, Flight Lieutenant Peter William, Dunedin. REMOVED FROM SERIOUSLY ILL LIST . Omond, Pilot Officer Allan Miller, Dunedin. OTHER DISTRICTS KILLED IN ACTION Adams, James Main, Invercargill. Fitness, Gordon William, Dargaville.' Pritchard/ laying Officer Howard Edward, Dargaville. KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE Shirley, Pilot Officer William Lawrence, Fellding. 1 Blue, W.O. Gavth Mervyn, Ohinewai. KILLED ON AIR OPERATIONS Bonham, Flight Lieutenant Gordon Loversldge, D.F.C., Christchurch. Smaill, Act. Flight Lieut. William Bagley, Auckland. DIED OF INJURIES Davies, W.O. George Albert, Wellington. * Gunn, Flight Lieut. Garth Reginald, Plimmerton. Humphrey, Act. Cpl. John Francis, Rotorua. MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED ON AIR OPERATIONS Andrews, Flying Officer William, Christchurch. * MISSING ON AIR OPERATIONS Boyd, W.O. Kenneth Leslie, Palmerston N. Collyns, Flight Lieut. Basil Gordon, London. Davies, Evan Bertram, New Plymouth. Dunn, Ernest Leslie, Whakapara. Hart, John Moore, Masterton. Mewa, Flight Lieut. Alick, Auckland. Whitaker, Flying Officer .Leslie Thomas, \ Lower Hutt. \ SERIOUSLY I£jL OR INJURED Carton, L.A.C. Wilfred Ernest, Wellington. Longhurst, W.O. WiUiam Duncan, Petone. Stott, Flying Officer Dalziel Alan, Darfleld. Tunnlcliffe, W.O. Donald McKenzie, Invervarcill. SAFE (Previously Reported Missing) Judscn, Flying Officer William George,’’ Matapu. Reader, Flying Officer Ronald Frederick, Auckland. Robins, Flight Lieut. John Donovan, BuUs. (Previously Reported Prisoners of War) Brown, AfC. Wallace Crichton, Nelson. Chrystall, Flight Lieut. Colin, Foxton. Olow, Flight Lieut. Ernest, New Plymouth. Clark, W.O. Clifford Dudley (New Zealand address not stated). Edwards, Flight Lieut. Lawrence Hugh,

Hermansen, W.O. William Paul, Danne-

• vlrke. Hunt, Flight Lieut. Selwyn Maurice. Greenmeadows. \ Mulligan, Flight Lieut. Walter Barton, Wellington. CONFIRMED AS PRISONER OF WAR (Previously Reported Missing) -Greig, Colin Frederick Johnson, Taupiri. PRESUMED DEAD (Previously Reported Missing, Believed Killed) Chegwidden, T/W.O. Elias Stout, Aucki land. Hansen, Kenneth Joseph, Waharoa. Hinds, Flight Lieut. Thomas, Wellington. (Previously Reclassified as Missing, Believed Killed) Atkinson, Leslie Noel, Auckland. Dampier-Crcssley, Flight Lieut. Edward, D.F.C., Waiau.. Hayward. Arthur Hardie, Westport. McCallum, Eric Donald, Porangahau. Matheson, Pilot Officer Kenneth Duncan, Wellington. . Ralph. Act. Flight Lieut. James Clarence. D.F.M., Auckland. Thompson, Pilot Officer Paul, Palmerston N. Tvrdeich, Pilot Officer Ivan, Hamilton. MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED IN \ ACTION (Prevfously Reported Missing) Blance, Pllofe Officer lan Edward. New Plymouth. Climo, Frederick Walter Pereival. Timaru. Galloway, Flying Officer Keith Alexander, Palmerston N. REMOVED FROM SERIOUSLY ILL LIST Kennington, L.A.C. Bernard Lawson, Marlborough. Laurent, L.A.C. lan Leslie, Auckland.