AIR CASUALTIES

Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22476, 11 January 1943, Page 4

AIR CASUALTIES

38 New Zealanders Listed Various Classifications (N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON. Jan. 10. The following air casualties were announced to-night, all being members of the R.N.Z.A.F. and of the rank of sergeant unless other wise stated: — Killed on Active Service Smith, Kenneth Ewen. Mother, Mrs A. E. Smith. Wellington. Sutherland, Acting Flight Lieutenant. Vernon Elton. Father, Mr O V. Sutherland, Wellington. Seriously Injured on Exercises Drew. Leading Aircraftman Rendel. Father. Mr J. M. Drew, Springcreek. Injured in Air Raid Montgomerie, Pilot Officer Leighton John. Mother, Mrs J. E. Montgomerie. Sentry Hill. Slightly Injured on Active Service Munro. George Finlay. Mother, Mrs A. Munro, Balclutha. Wadey, Pilot Officer Desmond Percy. Mother, Mrs E. E. Wadey, Wanganui. Missing on Air Operations Gatland, Flight Sergeant Frank Ellison. D.F.M. Wife, Mrs D. N. Gatland. Drury. Died of Natural Causes Swingler, Raymond Joseph. Wife, Mrs M. E. Swingler, Ashburton. Seriously 111, Now Removed From Seriously 111 List Wood. Hector Reginald. Mother, Mrs E. P. Burrows. Auckland. Previously Reported Missing, Death Now Officially Presumed Densem, Pilot Officer Jeoffrey MacLennan, of Port Chalmers. Dromgoole. Flight Sergeant Sydney Houston, of Lyttelton. Edwards, Dennis Henry, of Hastings. Hall, James Milton, of Gisborne. Knight, Leon Gaston, of Auckland. Young. Allen Norman, of Manurewa. Previously Reported Missing Believed Killed, Death Now Officially Presumed Harkness, Acting Squadron Leader Donald Joseph, D.F.C., R.A.F., of Midhurst. Hegan, John Gordon George, of Christchurch. Moncreif, Ernest Francis Sydney, . of Pukekohe. Monk, Pilot Officer Walter Jack, of Wellington. Randle, Douglas Haig, of Dunedin. Reed. Flight Sergeant Dudley Herman, of Darfield. Roy, John Charles, of Gore. Smith. Pilot Officer Trevor Harry, of Carterton. McGregor, Murdoch Gordon, of Wanganui. Young, George Anthony, of Palmerston North. Previously Reported Interned. Now Safe in British Territory Mcllraith, Pilot Officer Rex, Lower Hutt. Rhodes, Ernest Garfield, Te Awamutu. Todd. Pilot Officer Cecil. Palmerston North. • Previously Reported Seriously Hl, Now Removed from Seriously 11l List Marshall, John James, of Tauranga. Taylor, Pilot Officer Stuart Campbell, of Wellington. Previously Reported Missing, Now Reclassified Missing, Believed Killed Dixon, Pilot Officer Maxwell Wintringham, of Masterton. Jones, Rex Nigel Hugh, of Cambridge. Martin, George Wilfred, of Christchurch. Nelson, George, of Christchurch. Urwin, Flight Sergeant Reginald William, of Raetihi. Logan, Pilot Officer James Allan, of Hastings. Previously Reported Missing, Now Confirmed as a Prisoner of War Coldbeck, Acting Flight Lieutenant Henry Gift, D.F.C., of Christchurch. Previously Reported Missing, Believed a Prisoner of War, Now Confirmed as a Prisoner of War Knowles. Pilot Officer Charles Rupert, R.A.F.V.R., Wellington. An aircraftman of the R.N.Z.A.F., Aircraftman 1, James Alexander Guild, father Mr G. Guild, of Christchurch, received severe injuries and was classified as dangerously ill when run over by a bomb trolley at a North Island air station on Friday afternoon.