AIR CASUALTIES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 231, 30 September 1943, Page 6

AIR CASUALTIES

LATEST LIST ISSUED (P.A.) Wellington, Sept. 29. The following Air Force casualties were announced to-day (all are members of the R.N.Z.A.F. and the rank is sergeant unless otherwise stated): Missing on Air Operations. Brinsden, Acting-Squadron Leader Francis Noel, R.A.F., Auckland. Crawshaw, Flight-Sergeant Robert Ashworth, Dunedin. English, Flight-Sergeant Lloyd Francis, Auckland. Harries, Flight - Sergeant Harold, Perth, Australia. McNab, Donald Gordon, Timaru. Smith, Flying-Officer Allan Bishop. Lower Hutt; Spiers. Flying-Officer Howard Ivan, Masterton. Killed on Active Service. Heays. Flight-Sergeant lan Richard, Napier. Holmes, Keith Vivian Arkle, Frankton Junction. Wacher, Pilot-Officer David Weston. Christchurch. Died from Natural Causes. Ayers, Flying-Officer Arthur Baron Fortescue, Auckland. Missing, Believed Killed. Caldwell, Pilot-Officer William Donaldson, Wellington. Prisoner of War. Stewart. Acting-Flight Lieutenant Thomas Alexander, D.F.M., D.F.C.,

Seriously 111. Parry, Flying-Officer Norman Lloyd. Auckland. Previously Reclassified Missing, Believed Killed, Death Now Officially Presumed. Adie, Flight-Sergeant Gordon Marsh, Christchurch. Bond, Flight-Sergeant Bruce Alexander Godley, Waipawa. Bradmore, Flying-Officer Alan Edmund Wilkie, Auckland. Kennedy, Henry Martin, Auckland. McCormick, Flight-Lieutenant Maxwell William, Napier. McGregor, Leading-Aircraftman Hector Alexander Gordon, Palmerston North. MacGregor. Squadron-Leader Ronald Bruce Leslie, Christchurch. Marshall, Flight-Sergeant Keith Reynold, Auckland. Morison, Flying-Officer Jack Eric. Wellington. Nicholson, Flight-Lieutenant John Robert Mills. Christchurch. Puddle, Leading-Aircraftman Eric Samuel, Auckland. Russell, Leading-Aircraftman John Wilfred, Pukekohe. Waldie, Leading-Aircraftman Ivan James, Timaru. Wood. Pilot-Officer Douglass Edmund. Auckland. Previously Reported Missing, Now Reclassified Missing, Believed Killed Bacon, Flight-Sergeant Frederick William, Taumarunui. Burbidge, Flight-Sergeant Kenneth Alfred. Auckland. Hilton. Flight-Lieutenant Frederick England. MeEwin, Andrew James, Waiuta. West Coast. Martin. Donald Ernest. Auckland. Wilcockson, Walter Frederick, Christchurch. Previously Reported Missing. Death Now Officially Presumed. Blineoe. Pilot-Officer Kenneth Howard, Murchison. Clare. Pilot-Officer Cedric William, Auckland. Cook. George Wood. Frankton Junction. Hardman. Flying - Officer Donald Francis Ignatius, Dunedin. Sloan, William Harkness. Levin. Previously Reported Missing. Now Confirmed Prisoner of War. Brown. Pilot-Officer Charles Frederick Peter. Papakura. Hansen. Flight-Sergeant Walter Ivor, Dannevirke. Previously Reported Seriously Hl, Now Removed from Seriously 111 List. Hansen. Flight-Sergeant Raymond Karl. Te Kopiiru, North Auckland. Heilbron. A/Cl. Leonard Clifford. Auckland.