N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES

Southland Times, Issue 24773, 18 June 1942, Page 5

N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES

(P.A.) WELLINGTON. June 17. The following members of the N.Z.E.F. are mentioned in a casualty list issued tonight (the rank is private unless otherwise stated): — ACCIDENTALLY KILLED FERRIS, Lewis Daniel; wife, Mrs L. D. Ferris, Gisborne. DIED WHILE PRISONER, PREVIOUSLY REPORTED PRISONER DINGWALL, Lance-Corporal Alexander Garfield, Timaru. DIED, PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING JONES, David Earle Valentine, Wellington. MISSING BULLOCK, Frank Arthur; father, Mr Bifflock, Porirua. PRISONER OF WAR, PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING AEKINS, Robin, Wellington. PRISONER OF WAR CRAIG, 2nd Lieutenant James William Charles; wife, Mrs H. Craig, Auckland. PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, NOW REPORTED SAFE CATHERWOOD, David Mawson, Wellington. CROSS, Gunner Gilbert Lawrence, Port Chalmers. BARRINGTON, Driver Herbert Clyde, Masterton. PREVIOUSLY REPORTED PRISONER, NOW REPORTED SAFE CHRISTIE, Corporal Charles Victor, Hyde. FLETCHER, Signalman James Donald Henry, Palmerston South. McCAULAY, Sapper Patrick, Palmerston North. STOVE, Driver Herbert Leslie, Waiau. WHITFIELD, John Wilson, Palmerston South. AIR FORCE LIST (P.A.) AUCKLAND. June 17. The following air casualties were announced today (all R.N.Z.A.F.):— COX, Sergeant Lawrence Jack; missing on air operations; mother, Mrs F. E. Logan, Wellington. HAMILTON, Sergeant Donald Albert Stanley, previously reported missing, now reclassified as missing believed killed; belongs to Napier. MACKENZIE, Pilot Officer Angus Carr, missing on air operations; father, Mr J. G. Mackenzie, Wellington. NAVAL CASUALTIES (P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 17. The following naval casualty list is announced :— ALLAN, Raymond Keith, Temporary SubLieutenant (A), R.N.Z.N.V.R., previously reported suffering from serious bums, now removed from the seriously ill list; father, Mr Thomas Allan, Wellington. NEWMAN, Russell Hunter, telegraphist, previously reported missing, now prisoner of war; mother, Mrs Margaret E. Newman, Wellington. DIXON, Herbert Charles, Temporary Lieutenant, R.N.Z.N.V.R., previously reported missing, now prisoner of war; wife, Mrs Annie Dixon, Wellington. STILTON, George Eric John, Able Seaman, previously reported missing, death now presumed; wife, Mrs Ada Daphne Stilton, Auckland. HARTNETT, Edmund Saxelby, Able Seaman, previously reported missing, death now presumed; mother, Mrs Florence A. Kerr, Wellington).