N.Z. DRAFT FOR ROYAL NAVY
MEN TO SERVE FOR DURATION OF WAR
TEN YACHTSMEN TO GO OVERSEAS (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 21. Details of the naval personnel being sent from New Zealand to join the Royal Navy for the duration of the war were announced tonight by the Hon. F. Jones, Minister of Defence. He said that the naval draft would include 260 officers and men of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, 50 technical ratings specially entered for the Royal Navy, 80 Imperial ratings who have been replaced in the New Zealand naval forces by reserves. The new entries and the junior Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve ratings had all received special training to fit them for service in the Royal Navy. In addition the following 10 yachtsmen had been selected for commissions as sub-lieutenants in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve for service overseas: Sydney G. Wallace (Wellington), T. E. Mellor (Wellington), Ewan Cameron (Dunedin), Basil Shaw (Napier), Stanley G. Jervis (Auckland), William S. Wilson (Auckland), Arthur J. Martin (Auckland), Reginald A. Holloway (Auckland), Ralph R. Goodwin (Auckland), Ronald V. Gunn (Hokitika).
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Southland Times, Issue 24107, 22 April 1940, Page 4
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182N.Z. DRAFT FOR ROYAL NAVY Southland Times, Issue 24107, 22 April 1940, Page 4
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