MARTON AIRMAN TOTS CLASS
NiW ZiAL A ND_!RS TR WIG IN CANADA SERGEANT B. OI’ENSHAtVS SUCCESS Information that Sergeant-Observer Basil Openshaw. eldest son of Mr and Mrs. Edward Openshaw, Marton, wa.the top ranking graduate of a class of Nev. Zealand airmen who completed I heir training lasi March at a school in Canada is contained in the St. Thomas Times-Journal, a newspaper published in St. Thomas Ontario. Sergeant-Observer Openshaw, Ihe journal states, was about to leave for the final brush-up course, before go-
ing overseas, at another training school in Canada. “His home was in Marton, a suburb of Wanganui,” the paper adds. Before joining the Royal New Zealand Air Force last year. SergeantObserver Openshaw, who is 33 years of age, was a wireless operator for seven years on the sea-going staff of the Union Steamship Company. He served in the Tamahine on the Wellington-Picton run, transferring later to the Niagara, in which he made many trips between Sydney. Auckland and Vancouver, but had lef‘ the Niagara before she was lost by striking a mine north of Auckland. Sergeant-Observer Openshaw was educated at Huntley School, Marton, and the Wanganui Collegiate School
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 110, 13 May 1941, Page 4
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