EXPEDITIONARY FORCE CASUALTIES

Southland Times, Issue 24681, 28 February 1942, Page 5

EXPEDITIONARY FORCE CASUALTIES

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, February 27. The following N.Z.E.F. casualty list was issued 'tonight (the rank is second lieutenant unless otherwise stated): — PREVIOUSLY REPORTED PRISONER OF WAR, NOW REPORTED DIED WHILE PRISONER LONEY, ' Gunner Ernest Wilfred Wilson; mother, Mrs J. Loney, Nelson. PREVIOUSLY REPORTED WOUNDED AND MISSING, BELIEVED PRISONER, NOW REPORTED DIED WHILE PRISONER. SHERIDAN. Gunner Jack Irvine; father, Mr A. R. Sheridan, Wellington. PREVIOUSLY REPORTED PRISONER, NOW REPORTED DIED AS RESULT OF ACCIDENT WHILE PRISONER GREEN, Private Charles Thomas; wife, Mrs A. P. Green, Dunedin. PRISONERS OF WAR, PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, BELIEVED PRISONERS HILL, Captain Louis Carlton Sperry; wife, Mrs D S. Hill, Auckland. DUTTON, 'Temporary Captain Garth Ainsworth; father, Mr C. Dutton, Christchurch. THOMSON, Lieutenant Donald Gordon; father, Mr P. Thomson, Stratford. ASTLEY, Vernon Greenwood; wife, Mrs V. M. Astley, Auckland. DUKE. William Stuart; father, Mr W. JDuke, Dunedin. EASTWOOD, Eric Townsend; wife. Mrs M. Eastwood. Christchurch. McDonald. Keith Munro Weir; mother, Mrs L. R. McDonald, Wellington. MONEY. John Hugh; wife, Mrs D. A. Money, Milford. ORME, George; wife, Mrs P. B. C. Orme, Kumeu. EOSS, WALLACE SAMUEL; mother, Mrs A. Ross, Mataura. TAYLOR, Francis William; mother, Mrs M. H. Taylor, Wanganui. AIR FORCE LIST (P.A.) WELLINGTON. February 27. The following air casualties were announced tonight (all R.N.Z.A.F.): — SERGEANT RALPH BOWLING; missing on air operations; mother, Mrs L. Bowling, Hastings. PILOT OFFICER ERNEST WILLIAM BRIGHT, killed in an aircraft accident; father, Mr H. E. Bright, Gisborne. PILOT OFFICER ROBERT CROZIER, missing. believed killed on air operations; mother, Mrs R. Crozier, Frankton Junction. SERGEANT JAMES ALEXANDER FLEMING, killed in action; father, Mr J. T. Fleming, Lauder. SERGEANT PERCY JOHN HAVELOCK HAMLIN, killed in an aircraft accident; mother, Mrs C. Hamlin, Napier. SERGEANT REGINALD ANDREW KEMP, killed in action; father) Mr A. H. Kemp, Eltham. PILOT OFFICER DAVID GEORGE WEST, killed in an aircraft accident; father, Mr E V. West, Palmerston North. LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN LESLIE WILLIAM GILLAN, killed in an air accident; father, Mr W. H. Gillan, Napier. DEATH OF PRISONER OF WAR Mr and Mrs C. Green, Mary street, have received advice that their sop. Private Charles Gr ( een, had died as the result of an accident at Stalag 18A Prison Camp in December. Private Green was educated at Waikaka school and before his enlistment was on the staff of the New Zealand Railways at Kakahi, North Island. He enlisted in Auckland and saw service in Greece, from where he was taken prisoner. His wife lives in Dunedin. Two of his brothers, Sergeant Gebrge Green, who is in the Middle East, and Leading Aircraftman Joseph Green are serving in the Air Force. Two sisters, Mrs N. Keating and Miss L. Green, live in Invercargill. Mrs S. Shaw (Wanganui), and Mrs S. Smith (Fairlie) are also sisters.