AIR CASUALTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 March 1944, Page 4

AIR CASUALTIES

NEW ZEALAND PERSONNEL THREE DEATHS REPORTED./ ELEVEN MEN POSTED MISSING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The following R.N.Z.A.F. casualties were reported today, with the rank of' flight sergeant unless otherwise stated: Killed on Active Service. MCFARLANE,. W/O, Ernest David; mother, Mrs E. McFarlane, Christchurch. MOORE, Pilot Officer, William Alfred; father, Dr. S. A. Moore, Dunedin. Missing, Believed Killed on Air Operations. SOUTER, Flying Officer, Harold Havelock; wife, Mrs M. B. Souter, Auckland. Missing on Air Operations. GARBUTT, James Robin; mother, Mrs G. Garbutt, Dunedin. HARRIS, Acting Flight Lieutenant, Willis Mark; father, Mr C. S. Harris, Cromwell. HEGMAN, Acting Squadron Leader, John Alfred (D.F.C.); sister, Mrs L. C. Foster, Waimauku. JONES, Acting Flight Lieutenant. Frank Colwyn (D.F.C.); mother, Mrs E. J.’ Jones, Auckland. NEILSON, Kenneth McGregor; mother, Mrs E. Neilson, Rotorua. PIRANI, Pilot Officer, Frederick Bryan; mother, Mrs J. H. Pirani. Auckland. REID, Clifford Humphries; father, Mr S. G. Reid. Wellington. SAMPSON, Flight Lieutenant, Richard Webb; mother. Mrs J. P. Sampson, Napier. TREWEEK, Flying Officer, Gordon Stanley; wife, Mrs P. M. Treweek. Palmerston North. WILLLIAMS, Leslie; father, Mr E. J. Williams, Waimate. WHEELER, Wing Commander, Arthur Brian (R.C.A.F.); father , Mr A. Wheeler, Wellington. Dangerously 111 or Injured. THOMS, Flying Officer, Henri Winston; wife, Mrs N. M. Thoms, Christchurch. TURNER. Pilot Officer, Francis Harold; father, Mr F. J. Turner, Mossburn. Safe, Previously Reported Missing. DOCHERTY, W/O, Lenard Guy, of Cutram. Presumed Dead, Previously Reported Missing. BADCOCK, David Herbert William, of Hawera. FRESHNEY, Flying Officer, Charles John, of Auckland. HUMPHREYS, Flying Officer, Noel Robert Shakespeare, of Wellington. LOVELOCK, Flying Officer, James Benjamin, of Christchurch. McDONALD, Pilot Officer, Ninian Robson, of Dunedin. SKINNER, Sergeant, Bruce James, of Auckland. WILKIE, George Hardwick Burgess, of Marton. Presumed Dead, Previously Reclassified Missing Believed Killed. BRIDGER. Cyril Jack, of Nelson. DONNELLY, James Patrick, of Wellington. HAUB. Darcy Leslie Conrad, of North Auckland. JACKSON, Kensington Campbell, of Cambridge. LUNDON, Francis Patrick, of Wellington. ROBERTS, Eric John, of Pleasant Point. WAKELY, Noel Nathaniel, of Napier. Died in New Zealand as Result of a Motor Cycle Accident. LOW, Flying Officer, John Henry (D.F.C.); wife, Mrs Low, Marton.