N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES

Southland Times, Issue 24602, 26 November 1941, Page 6

N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, November 25. The following list of casualties to members of the N.Z.E.F. was announced to-day: KILLED IN ACTION, PREVIOUSLY REPORTED WOUNDED AND MISSING

YAGER. Private Francis Leslie; wife, Mrs E. N. Yager, Ahuroa. DIED WHILE PRISONER OF WAR SHALDERS. Driver Albert Fulford; father, Mr A. L. Shalders, Oamaru. DIED OF SICKNESS WHILE PRISONER OF WAR REID, Private Eric Alban; wife, Mrs M. Reid, Takapuna. KILLED ACCIDENTALLY JASPERS, Corporal Edward Carr; father, Mr P. Jaspers, Nelson. PRISONERS OF WAR, PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING BISHOP, 2nd Lieutenant Ernest Hope; mother, Mrs R. Marden, Epsom. BARRY. Private Paul Richard; mother, Mrs E. M. Barry, Gisborne. BRAY, Driver Roy; mother, Mrs O. Bray, Wellington. BUDDLE, Private Ernest Thomas John; friend. Mr G. Seiway, Mangawhare. .CRABTREE, Gunner Kenneth Huntley; mother, Mrs M. C. Crabtree, Napier. CRAVEN. Private Jack; father, Mr C. Craven, Whangarei. DIXON, Private Godfrey Lewis; mother, Mrs E. Dixon, Anderson’s Bay. GOLLAN, Corporal Leslie; wife, Mrs C. Gollan, Addington. LYON, Corporal Herbert John; wife, Mrs E. E. Lyon. Onerahi. NICOLLE, Driver Thomas William; father, Mr Nicolle, Lower Hutt. OLSEN, Lance-Corporal ” William Archer; wife, Mrs A. Olsen, Cheswick, England. CASUALTIES IN AIR FORCE (P.A.) WELLINGTON. November 25. Tlie following air casualties were announced today:— SERGEANT HENRY THOMAS HICKTON, R.N.Z.A.F., previously reported missing and now interned; aunt, Mrs A. C. Hickton, Palmerston North. SERGEANT FREDERICK LIONEL ROY WOOD, previously reported missing and now reclassified as missing and believed killed in action; mother, Mrs L. M. Holt, Waimate North, Bay of Islands. FLYING OFFICER LINDSAY EDWARD DURRANT, R.A.F., reported missing on air operations; mother, Mrs B. Durrant, Feilding. SERGEANT SELWYN GIBSON SHIRLEYTHOMSON. R.N.Z.A.F., previously reported missing and now reclassified as missing and believed killed in action; wife, Mrs S. G. Shirley-Thomson, Whangaparaoa. SERGEANT NOEL WILLIAM JAMES STARLEY. R.N.Z.A.F., admitted to station sick quarters suffering from dangerous head injuries received as a result of a motor accident; father, Mr W. D. Starley, Wellington.