N.Z.E.F. CASUALTY LIST

Southland Times, Issue 24536, 10 September 1941, Page 6

N.Z.E.F. CASUALTY LIST

NUMBER OF DEATHS REPORTED (P.A.) WELLINGTON. September 9. The following list of casualties to members of the N.Z.E.F. was issued tonight (the rank is private unless otherwise stated): — DIED OF WOUNDS—PREVIOUSLY • REPORTED MISSING HEATH, GUNNER MERVYN HUGH; mother, Mrs E. Heath, Christchurch. DIED—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING BELLRINGER, BOMBARDIER TREVOR CLAUDE; father, Mr F. T. Bellringer, New Plymouth. BOWN, ROBERT JOHN; father, Mr J. Bown, Peiorous Bridge. DEAN, GUNNER ROY ALAN; mother, Mrs L. A. Dean, England. ELLIOTT, LANCE-CORPORAL HAROLD JACK; father, Mr H. A. Elliot, Wellington. GILLESPIE, LANCE-CORPORAL JOHN; father, Mr J. Gillespie, Ireland. HAMILTON, SAPPER PERCY CLAUDE; mother, Mrs M. C. C. Stevens, South Dunedin. HANSEN, CLARENCE WILLIAM; father, Mr A. W. Hansen, Hamilton. HIGGINS. LEONARD RATCLIFFE; brother, Mr C. M. Higgins, Hamilton. JOHNSON, TEMPORARY SERGEANT NOEL FRANCIS; mother, Mrs M. J. T. Johnson, Auckland. LEITCH. KENNETH ERNEST; father, Mr G. Leitch, Hunua. OGILVY, JAMES; mother, Mrs J. Ogilvy, Auckland. LYONS-PHILP/ THOMAS BENNETT; mother, Mrs A. Lyons-Philp, Torbay. POUTU, JOHN; mother, Mrs C. Kemp, Ruatoria. SADLER, SAPPER MERVYN DAMAN; father, Mr W. E. D. Sadler, Auckland. WHITE, SAPPER IVAN ROBERT; father, Mr R. White, Auckland. PRISONERS OF WAR—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING JACKSON, LANCE-CORPORAL LEO GODSEFF; wife, Mrs E. M. F. Jackson, Haywards. MULHOLLAND, LANCE-CORPORAL EDGAR DANIEL; father, Mr F. B. Mulholland, Papanui. RIDER, SERGEANT DUDLEY HOWARD; father, Mr A. H. Rider, Turakina. WOOD, RAYMOND ERNEST; father, Mr E. R. Wood, Wellington. AIK FORCE CASUALTIES (P.A.) WELLINGTON, September 9. The following Air Force casualties were announced today:— SERGEANT CHRISTOPHER FALCON SCOTT, previously reported missing last December, later reported to be a prisoner of war and wounded and now safe in England; father, Mr J. Scott, Geraldine. PILOT OFFICER JOHN FRANCIS _ HUNT, previously reported seriously injured in an aircraft accident, now reported to have been killed in an aircraft accident; wife, Mrs J. F. Hunt, Auckland.