AWARD OF D. F. M.
Tribute To Skill As Navigator (N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON. April 9. Tributes to his skill as a navigator aid bomb aimer are paid in the citation accompanying the award of the D.F.M. to Sergeant lan Armstrong Blaikie, a member of the R.N.Z.A.F. serving overseas. Before the war Sergeant Blaikie lived at Napier. His father, Mr J. Blaikie, lives at Greenmeadows, Napier. During the last six months Sergeant Blaikie has been engaged in operational flying and in all aerial assignments has displayed coolness and courage, states the citation. It was in a large measure due to his skilful navigation and bomb aiming that many successes had been achieved.
A landscape gardener in civil life, Sergeant Blaikie was born in Christchurch in 1918 and educated at the Greendale School, Canterbury, and the Boys’ High School, Napier. Applying to join the Air Force early in 1940 he commenced his New Zealand training as an observer later in the same year.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22553, 10 April 1943, Page 4
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