ACCIDENTALLY KILLED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25799, 21 March 1945, Page 6

ACCIDENTALLY KILLED

SUB-LIEUTENANT E. C. SHERRIFF

Temporary Sub-lieutenant (A) Ernest Charles Sherriff, second son of the late Mr D. J. Sherriff, and Mrs O. Evans. 72 Hazel avenue, Dunedin, has been reported killed in an aircraft accident while serving with the Fleet Air Arm. Sub-lieuten-ant Sherriff was educated at the Caversham and Otago Boys’ High Schools. After spending some time as a laboratory assistant with the Milburn Lime and Cement Company, he attended the Dunedin Training College. In his second

year at Training College he left to enter camp at Burnham, and served as a quartermaster with the Ist Battalion, Otago Regiment. On being demobilised from this unit he was appointed assistant at the Mornington School, and later at the Benhar and Merino Downs schools. Sub-lieutenant Sherriff left the latter school to join the Fleet Air Arm, and carried out his training in England and Canada. On the conclusion of pis course he was awarded the Admiralty prize and was commissioned. Before proceeding overseas Sub-lieuten-ant Sherriff was an active Boys’ Brigade and church worker. He served as a lieutenant, and later as a captain, in the 16th Dunedin Company (Caversham Presbyterian) of the Boys’ Brigade, and was a Sunday school teacher and youth worker of the Caversham Presbyterian Church. His brother, Lieutenant D. G. Sherriff, is at present serving in a casualty clearing station In Italy. Another brother served with the forces in New Zealand.