DISTINGUISHED FLYING MEDAL
Another New Zealand airman has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal according to official advict received by Air Headquarters, Wei lington. He is Sergeant Jeffery George West, R.N.Z.A.F. (mother. Mrs C. S. West, care Miss Tucker. 37 Cairns Avenue, Wanganui).
The citation accompanying the award states:“Sergeant West has participated in 34 operational sorties over enemy territory and has at all times displayed courage and deter mination. He has destroyed at leas T two enemy aircraft.”
Sergeant West was born in Palmerston North in 1912 and was educated at Hamilton High School, where he took a prominent part in sport, representing the school at Rugby, hrickei and hockey. He later represented Wai kato at hockey and cricket.
realize that we are as keen as anyone in New Zealand to get all the facts and stop the illegal sale of gift cigarettes. It is significant that at the three meetings we have held of the advisory com mil tee of the ,New Zealand Forces Club, on which are two representatives of each unit of the N.Z.E.F., this question has never'been raised.”
he says, “and never yet have we beer, able* to get any evidence that the cigarettes in question were purchased
over a counter at the club.”
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Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 92, 3 October 1941, Page 6
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