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LONDON VICTORY PARADE CAPTAIN UPHAM REACHES SYDNEY (Rec. 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 27. Captain C. H. Upham, V.C. and bar. arrived in Sydney by flying boat from New Zealand to-day on his way to England for the Victory Parade on June 8. Captain Upham said that he had not wanted to go to London for the parade because he was too busy on his farm, but he had been prevailed upon to do so by the Prime Minister. Mr P. Fraser. “I am sick of crowds and the fuss that people make over my decorations,” he said. The New Zealand High Commissioner, Mr J. G. Barclay, met Captain Upham at the flying boat base at Rose Bay. Captain Upham will leave for England by a Lancastrian airliner tomorrow. night.
AIR FORCE CONTINGENT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 27.
At present in the United Kingdom, the following personnel have been selected to join the R.N.Z’.A.F. victory parade contingent now en route to England on bon'd the Maunganur.— Fighter Command: Squadron Leader C. A. Hansen, Flight Lieutenants A. R. Robson, D.F.M., A. W. Burge, D.F.C., and J. H Daves. Flying Training Command: Flying Officer C. P. Fisk.
Bomber Command: Acting Wing Commander H. H. J. Miller, 0.8. E., D.F.C., A.F.C., Squadron Leaders L. E. Duke, N. A. Cresswell, D.F.C., Acting Squadron Leader B. R. Quintan Technical Training Command: Squadron Leader R. A Thomson. Coastal Command: Squadron Leader A. E. Henderson, Flying Officers R. Ingles, J. Mitchell and M. R. Croft. Transport Command: Squadron Leader H. W. Shilton, D.F.C., Flight Lieutenants H. D. Alcock, D.F.C., H. W. Spencer, Squadron Leaders L. H. Trent, V.C., D.F.C., P. S. Anderson and Flying Officer J. H. Wernor. Maintenance Command: Wing Commander B. S. Nicholl. Fersonnel from 12 P.D.R.C. awaiting repatriation: Flight Lieutenants J. G. Silson, W. W. Morgan, H. M. Esdaile, L. R. W. Howell, P. J. McWilliam, C. M. Crawford, W. R. Barnes, E. A. Koldaway, D.F.C. and Bar, E. H. Taylor, Flying Officer C. L. Blows, Warrant Officers G. Essex. J. M. Henshaw, R. C. Pope. Leading Aircraftsman K. P. Lynch and Corporal G. E A. Wilson.
New Zealand W.A.A.F.: Section Officer M. K. Loughnan, M.8.E.. Staff Sergeant I. Petersen, Sergeants J. J. H. Hay. T. P. Oates and J. A. Matthews.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26163, 28 May 1946, Page 4
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