UNIT SAFE IN AUSTRALIA

Southland Times, Issue 24687, 7 March 1942, Page 6

UNIT SAFE IN AUSTRALIA

NEW ZEALANDERS FROM SINGAPORE AERODROME CONSTRUCTION PARTY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 6. A further statement about the welfare of officers and airmen of the New Zealand Aerodrome Construction Unit was made by the Minister of Defence, the Hon. .F. I Jones, tonight. Official advice givi ing the names of the personnel of this unit evacuated from Singapore to Australia has now been received at Air Headquarters, Wellington, and urgent telegrams have been sent to the next of kin. Inquiries are being made about the welfare of other New Zealanders who were at Singapore, and a statement will be made immediately further information is received. In the meantime, correspondence should be addressed care Air Headquarters, Wellington.

In the following list of officers and airmen of the unit who were successfully evacuated to Australia the place name given is that of the next-of-kin:— Squadron Leader Smart, Eric Copland, Hokitika. Flight-Lieutenants.—Anderson. Kenneth William Barclay. New Plymouth: Begg. Adam Gordon. Dunedin; Butler, Frederick, Hamilton; Furlong, Maurice Beehan, Sydney; Goldinham, Strachan Agnew, Palmerston North. Captains.—McCowan, Allister Imlach, Auckland North; Noel, Hunter, Blenheim. Flying Officers. —Beveridge, Thomas Oxley Tod, Wellington; Gaby, William Arthur, Hamilton; Goodebeheere, Samuel Frederick John, Feilding; Hyde, Frederick De Mulford, Hamilton; Parsons, Robert Roy, Auckland; Sinclair, Eliot Orton, Christchurch; Treloar, John James, Lower Hutt. Warrant officers.—Baker, Lancelot John Goldsmith, Wellington; Chalklen, Thomas, Hamilton; Sturdee, William James. Featherston. Flight Sergeants.—Keegan, Michael Hugh, New Plymouth; McLean, Malcolm Teller, Wellington; Roberts. Leslie Thomas, AuckSergeants.—Campbell, Joseph Albert, Wellingtn; Glanville, Edwin Charles, Gisborne; Goodwin, E. A. J. Wellington; Gunn, Francis James, Lawrence; Kitt, lan Hamilton, Hastings; Morrissey, Alan, Waitoa; Neilson, John Finlay Smith, Napier Newth, Walter John, Gisborne. Corporals.—Armitage, Hewson James, Tuakau; Clay, Gerald Harold, Wanganui; Cummings, Francis Leonard, Stratford; Gale, Francis Charles, Auckland; Gilchrist, John Pamoana, Utiki; Hardie, Robert Lorenzo, Wellington; Harris, Mervyn Toyne Bernard, Auckland; Lockington, George Gregory, Reefton; ■ Maclean, James Brand, Masterton; Martin, Percy Pattimore, Ratapiki; Mephan, Harry Vincent, Auckland; Meyers, Sidney Thomas, Wellington; Murdoch, Howard Donald Alfred, Wellington; O’Brien, Edward, Auckland; Oudaille, Frances George, Wellington; Peterson, Ernest William, Albury; Ross, Gordon Hamilton, Gisborne; Semple, Leonard Victor, Wellington; Stein, Adam, Stratford; Thorburn, Edgar Cecil, .Auckland; Walls, Terras Wrocton, Christchurch. Leading aircraftmen. —Achilles, Ernest Cecil, Wellington; Adlan, Ernest William, Midhurst; Archer, Edward Horatio, Manunul; Armstrong, Roy Leo, Christchurch; Barraclough, Lawford Wilson, Auckland; Beard, Thomas Vivian, Feilding; Beatty, Charles Arnold, Levin; Boyd, Edward James, Hokitika; Brown, Anthony Leonard, London; Brown, William James, Auckland, Brownlie, Eiochan Benjamin, Palmerston North; Burgess, Frances Graham, Rangiora; Byrne, Joseph Gerard, Ikamatua; Cadogan, Maurine Bernard, Palmerston North; Carey. Arthur Leslie Thomas, Westport; Catherall, Keith Frances Tasman, Masterton; Chamberlain, Leslie Alfred, Wanganui; Church, Os- I wald Vincent, Wellington; Clare, William Keith, Auckland; Claydon, Jolin Bryan, Christchurch; Coffin, James, Ohakune; Colville, f’aul Henry, Christchurch; Corich, Ivan Jack, Christchurch; Cunningham, William John, Timaru; Davies, Ronald Courtenay, Nelson; Dew, George Noel, Manurewa; Dron, Noel Alwyn, Nelson; Dyett, Carl Henry, England; East, Noel, Wellington; Engel, George Albert, Johnsonville; Fitzwilliam, Edward Gordon, Hamilton; Flavell, Howard Thornton Day, Gisborne; Fowler, Leslie, Christchurch; Gardiner, Bernard Lennox, Queenstown; Graham, Athol Melville, Wanganui; Graham, Stanley Lawrence, Shannon; Hanlon, Norman John. Wellington; Harbridge, Brian Christopher, Christchurch; Harland, Ralph, England; Hayward, Heathcote Clifford, Christchurch; Haynes, Terence George, England; Heffer, Donald Frances, Blenheim; Heslop, Cyril Heslop, Wairoa; Hikairo, Hone, Ngongotaha, Hopkins, Edward Thomas, Christchurch; Howie, Ernest Humphrey, Ohura; Jones, Gordon Gwynne, Masterton; Kennedy. James, Greymouth; Kerr, Walter Leslie, Nelson; King, Peter Robert, Oamaru; Kirkaldie, David, Wellington; Kruse, James, Christchurch; Ladyman, Robert Frederick, Palmerston North; Lafferty, Charles Basil, Auckland; Lapworth, Owen Shakespeare, Wellington; Lawton, Richard Henry, Wellington; Lennox, Robert, Petone; Little, William, Wellington; Lockie, Allan John, Wellington; Lynch, William George, Waitahuna; McArthur, Allan William, Invercargill; McCarthy, Francis Augustine, Auckland; McCormick, Clyde Graham, Stratford; McDonald, Alexander Joseph, Lake Waikaremoana; McElligott, John, Wellington; McFarlande, John Scott, Nelson; McGlone, Phillip George, Auckland, McMillan, David Morton, Christchurch; Mcßae, Cyril Duncan, Mosgiel; Andrew Isles, Hamilton; Manning, William Brown, Wellington; Mills, Noel Spencer, Blenheim; Moncur, Alexander Francis, Rotorua; Morris, Ronald, Wellington; Murch, William Gilbert, Auckland; Old, Joseph Stewart, Paeroa; Peek, Gordon Terrie, Greymouth; Phillips, Michael Joseph, Silverstream; Powell, William, Wellington; Prichard, William Herbert, Ashburton; Ramsay, Ivor Horace, Te Kaka; Ritchie, Phillip Jack, Ouhuhia; Robertson, Ronald Hislop, Christchurch; Russell, Eric Leslie Bevan, Swanson; Russell, Robert, Greymouth; Sharpe, Kenneth George, Wellington; Smith, Joseph William, Christchurch; Smith, Sam, Petone; Stewart, Daniel, Wellington; Streater, Frank Edward. Auckland; Swallow, Thomas Clifford, Mosgiel; Thomson, John, Scotland; Todd, William Reddock, Christchurch; Tombs, Arthur, Wellington; Upham, Francis Gerald, Paekakariki; Wallace, Douglas Carley, Auckland: Wallace, John Harold, Blenheim; Warren, James Patrick, Dunedin; West, Thomas Albert, Christchurch; Willis, Percy George, Greymouth; Wilson, Raymond Francis, Lyttelton; Wineera, James, Rotorua.