MAORI BATTALION
CASUALTY IN ACCIDENT OHAKEA ACCIDENT INQUIRY (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Thursday The following casualties are officially announced:—• Private Tokena Pokai, 28th Maori Battalion, killed as a result of a motor accident on September 5. His sister is Miss Tipi Pokai, Tikitiki, Ruatoria. Pilot-Officer Charles De Vic Halkett, missing in air operations. His mother is Mrs A. J. Canning, 24 Stafford Street, Wellington. Aircraftsman Arthur Lawrence Jessop, killed at Ohakea Air Force Station on September 11 at 6.4 p.m. A court of inquiry is to be held today.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21217, 13 September 1940, Page 7
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