AIR CASUALTIES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 118, 22 May 1942, Page 4

AIR CASUALTIES

(P.A.) Welling.on, May 21. I The following Air Force casualties I were announced to-day (all P..N.Z.- , A.F.):— . Sergeant Selwyn Hight Burt, missing on air operations. Mr. T. Bui., I Rangiora (f.) Flight-Sergeant Denis FredericK I Ciifford, missing on air operations. Mrs. E. G. Clifford, Auckland (m.» ; Sergeant lan Wynn Davies, missing on air operations. Mr. E. r». Davies, New Plymouth (1.) Flight-Sergeant Jeffrey Lewis, missing on air operations. Mr. G. Lewis Richmond (f.) Sergeant Donald John McKenzie, missing on air opera, ions. Mrs. C. McKenzie. Awarua Plains <m.) Sergeant Graeme John McCleary, dangerously injured. Mrs. J. J. Me- i Cleary, Napier (m.) 1 Sergeant John Oliver, killed in action. I Mr. J. E. Oliver. Blenheim (f.) ‘ Sergeant Allan Launcelot Robinsen. ’ sligh‘ly injured on air operations. Mr. L. S. Robinson. Whitianga (f.> Sergeant Raymond Thomas Smith, slightly injured in aircraft acci- ' d'-’nt. Mr. S. C. Smith Hangatiki (fj

L _ - ■ Salute in Danger. “One thing arising out of the pre- ■ sent war is that the salute is in i danger. Personally I hope that it will i go, and by its disappearance I do not ‘ believe that discipline will be affectI ed in the slightest. It is a greater nuisance to the officers than to the ■ men.” said the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Mr. Barnard). I I when speaking at a returned soldiers’ reunion in Hawke’s Bay.