ADDITIONAL HONOURS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 8, 10 January 1946, Page 4

ADDITIONAL HONOURS

AIRMEN IN ENGLAND NEW ZEALANDERS WIN O-B.E. Among tlie New Year Honours published in London the following New Zealanders appear:— 0.8. E. (Officer of Order of the British Empire). Air Commodore S. C. Elworthy. Group Captain R. L. Kippenberger. Wing Commander A. C. Deere. Wing Commander L. E. Durrant. Wing Commander H. H. J. Miller. Air Commodore Elworthy, who already holds lhe D. 5.0., D.F.C., and A.F.C., was born in Timaru. He received a permanent commission in the Roy a] Air Force nine years ago. All three of his decorations were received in the first four months of 1941, about which time he was n charge of a Blenheim squadron. He later became an advised m Bomber Command.

Group Captain R. L. Kipper-berger is a brother of Major-General H. K. Kip'penberger. He joined lhe Royal Air Force in 1929 after working his way to England in a tramp steamer, and was later permanently commissioned. During the war be served with the in Fracce, later commanding a Wellington squadron, and in IJI4 was given charge of tlie operations of a group to which (he New Zealand Mosquito Day Bomber Squadron was attached. Wing Commander Alan Christopher Deere, of Wanganui, was one of the outstanding and most decorated New Zealand lighter pilots of the war. He holds the D. 5.0., D.F.C. and bar, American D.F.C. and Croix de Guerre. He is a top-ranking New Zealand ace, having shot down 204 enemy aircraft. At present he commands an airfield in The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Miller, of Kiwitahi, Morrinsville, Wing Commander Miller, who holds the D.F.C. and A.F.C., received a short-service commission in the Royal Air Fo’ce in 1939. I’m was awarded the D.F.C. in 1941 after completing 30 operational missions in bombers. Last [year lie was appointed chief instructor at a bomber station in England. z —•