ROYAL AIR FORCE

Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 5, 31 May 1940, Page 8

ROYAL AIR FORCE

New Zealand Casualties The following casualties involving New Zealanders in the Royal Ait Force were officially announced recently. ' ■ ■ Pilot Officer Vernon Allan Cunning-, ■ ham is missing, and is believed to have been killed in operations on May 14. He is a son of Mrs. F. Cunningham, 27 Scarborough Terrace, Wellington. Flying Officer John Roland Brown is reported killed in an aircraft, accident on May 12. His father is Squadron Leader J. T. Brown, who is on interchange duties in New Zealand. Flying Officer John Ernest Edwards 1 is reported missing after air operations on May 15. He is a son of Mrs. M. M. K. Edwards, 44 Arm ore Road. Herne Bay, Auckland. ’-.-A cablegram was received yesterday by Mrs. J. L. Whitlock, 250 Queen’s Drive, Lyall Bay. Wellington, stating that her brother. Pilot Officer A. E. Bourgeois,, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. ; E. Bourgeois, 13 McDonald Street, Napier, was reported missing, and was believed to have lost his life on May 20. Pilot Officer Bourgeois left New Zealand to join the Royal Air. Force in .England on short service commission in February, 1939. " Advice has been conveyed by the Air Ministry to his relatives that Flying Officer Leonard Miller, Auckland, aged 22 years, is missing as a result. of . air : action. Flying Officer Miller, very well known in football ’ and boxing circles as •‘Spud' - f Miller, is a son of the Rev Matthew Miller. Devonporl. and was a Takapuna Grammar School boy. He took up flying at Mangere, where he was trained by the late' Squadron Leader D. M. Allen, and left for England in September, 1937, as one of the first body of exchange pilots to leave under the New Zealand Air Force expansion scheme inaugurated in 1937. After training at Air Force stations in England, he was at Driffield Yorkshire, as a bombing pilot.