SEVEN AWARDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 2, 4 January 1943, Page 4

SEVEN AWARDS

NEW ZEALAND AIRMEN Wellington, Jan. ,2. Numerous raids and air battles over enemy-occupied territory are referred to in citations accompanying awards to seven New Zealand airmen serving overseas. The awards comprise a bar to the Distinguished Flying Cross, four Distinguished Flying Crosses, and two Distinguished Hying Medals. One award, a Distingulsheu Flying Cross, goes to a New Zealander who is an officer in the Royal Australian Air Force. Official advice received at Air Heauquarters, Wellington, states that the recipients of the awards are:— Bar to the Distinguished Flying Cross: Flying-Officer Roy Oldtieni Calvert, R.N.Z.A.F. Mr. G. Calvert, 20 Victoria Street, Cambridge (f.) Distinguished Flying Cross: Acting Flight - Lieutenant Roy Bramwell Spear, R.N.Z.A.F. Mr. C. C. Spear, 107 Malcolm Avenue, Christchurch (f.). Pilot-Officer John Leonard Wright, R.N.Z.A.F. Mrs. E. E. Wright, 44 Weka Street, Frankton Junction (m.) Pilot-Officer Edward Dampier Crossley, R.A.A.F. WarrantOfficer (now Pilot-Officer) Maurice Damien Cullinane, R.N.Z.A.F. Mr. D. Cullinane, care D. Campion, Fordell (f.) Distinguished Flying Medal: FlightSergeant Kenneth Atherton Crankshaw, R.N.Z.A.F. Mr. T. Crankshaw, Mackay Street, Greymouth (f.) Flight-Sergeant Thomas Alexander Stewart, R.N.Z.A.F. Mr. L. Stewart, Millers Road, Dannevirke (f.)