MYSTERY SOLVED
N.Z. AIR COMMODORE F ATHER WAS VK AR OF WAiUKI . [ Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Jan. 5. The seeming mystery surrounding c the identity ot the recently promoted ( . Air Commodore, F. H. M. Maynard, c stated in a cable to belong to Waiuku, J , Nev. Zealand, has been solved. , , He was born at the vicarage of Wai- ‘ ’ uku, near Auckland, in May, 1893. His r father was from Eng.au i and was J ' vicar of Waiuku. A friend t>r the ! family residing in Wa'r.t <u stated that £ the family were in New Zealand ' about three years. Th?/ left when the son was about two years old. r During the Great. War Air Com- 1 modore Maynard was a flight Lieutenant in the Air Force and piloted one of the escort planes which accompanied the Prince ot Wales to France. r Later he was attamed to Lord Al- f lenby’s staff in Egypt. W.ien the last I news reached New Zealand in 2923 he was married and had one .-.on, s
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 5, 6 January 1940, Page 8
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171MYSTERY SOLVED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 5, 6 January 1940, Page 8
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