MATCHES ARRANGED
R.N.Z.A.F. Rugby Team In Britain LONDON, September 7. Pilot Officer Eric Grant, Auckland, who carried out several raids with the New Zealand Bomber Squadron, including visits to Saint Nazaire, Wilhelmshaven, Emden, and Bremen, also minelaying trips, is now attached to the New Zealand Air Liaison Office, where he is also sports officer. He has already arranged 12 matches for the R.N.Z.A.F. Rugby team in the coming season, and also for a combined Australian and New Zealand team to play South Wales at Swansea on February 13. This is believed to be the. first Anzac team to play in Britain. Many of last year’s R.N.Z.A.F. team are missing or transferred, and practically a new team will play, the newcomers including Pilot Officer R. W., G. Emery and Sergeant B. Heffernan, Auckland, Sergeant R. A. Powell, King Country, SubLieutenants N. Lawrence, Fleet Air Arm, Wanganui, A. A. Copeland, Canterbury, and S- Green, Palmerston North. The last two are agriculturists, who recently. arrived in Britain.
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Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 140, 18 September 1942, Page 3
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