AIR FORCE APPOINTMENT
Cousin Of Sergeant Hulme, V.C.
AUCKLAND. October 22.
A cousin of Sergeant A. C. Hulme. V.C., Pilot Officer Harold Lane Thomas. Auckland, has been appointed an instructor in the Royal Air Force in the Middle East after over a year's active service in England. Pilot Officer Thomas, who is 24, is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. H T. Thomas, of 24 Selwyn f Avenue. Mission Bay. with whom Sergeant Hulme has been staying during his visit to Auckland
Educated at the Mount Albert Grammar School and the Waitaki Boys’ High School, Pilot Officer Thomas was called up. on December 18, 1939, underwent training at Weraroa, New Plymouth, and Blenheim, and left for England as a sergeant pilot in August, 1940. Following service with a squadron composed x of pilots from many Allied nations under Squadron Leader W. .G. Cloustbn, D.F.C., of Wellington, he joined the New Zealand Fighter Squadron at its inception and received a commission. The Spitfire he flew was named the Mission Bay.
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Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 96, 31 October 1941, Page 5
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