TWO REPORTED DEAD

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21202, 27 August 1940, Page 4

TWO REPORTED DEAD

CHRISTCHURCH AIRMEN ONE MARRIED BEFORE LEAVING (By Telegrapn.—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday Reports of the deaths of two Christchurch pilots in the Royal Air Force have been received. They are: Pilot Officer Ronald Stanley Magee, aged 25, son of Mrs C. M. Magee, of Gracefield Avenue. Sergeant-Pilot Robert Henry Clifford, aged 24, eldest son of Mr and Mrs H. H. Clifford, of Worcester Street.

Educated at the Reefton District High School and St. Bede’s College, Pilot-Officer Magee was a member of the Canterbury Aero Club and the Rongotai Aero Club, where he obtained his A and B licenses. After receiving training at Trentham he was stationed at Fort Dorset for two years. He left the fort to join the R.N.Z.A.F. in June of last year, and passed out from Wigram on January 15 of this year. He was married to Miss Shirley Buchanan, of MacMillan Avenue, Cashmere Hills, a fortnight before he left for home. Sergeant-Pilot Clifford was educated at the Cathedral Grammar School and the Timaru Boys’ High School. He received his flying and training at Wigram and passed out on May 28. He had been in England only about six weeks when the news of his death was received.