SUMNER MAN
MISSING IN LOSS OF BRITISH TRAWLER. BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. A Sumner member of the R.N.V.R.. Ordinary Seaman Charles Warren Whykes, is missjng and believed to have been killed in the loss of his Majesty's trawler Drummer, which is reported as lost by The Admiralty. He was a son of Mi’ W. 11. Whykes. of Sumner. Seaman Whykes was 21 years of age and left New Zealand last February. for service in the Royal Navy. He was a prominent cricketer, footballer. amateur wrestler and runner. In Sumner he was educated at the district high school.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1940, Page 6
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