AIR CASUALTIES

Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 19, 6 September 1940, Page 1

AIR CASUALTIES

W ■ ' ‘w Zealanders Overseas e/' ; ports of the deaths of two Christoff pilots -in the Royal Air Force j.rf- been received —Pilot Officer ; ild Stanley Magee, aged 25, son eULrs. C. M. Magee, Gracefield Aveand Sergeant Pilot Robert Henry /Drd, aged 24, eldest son of Mr. and ; H. H. Clifford, Worcester Street. ! lucated at the Reefton District ;|i School and St. Bede’s College, -t Officer Magee was a member of /■Canterbury Aero Club and the gotai Aero Club, where he ob--led his A and B licences. After ing St. Bede’s in 1932 he was en-

gaged in surveying. Later he joined -the artillery, and after receiving training at Trentham was stationed at Fort Dorset for two years. He left Fort Dorset to join the R.N.Z.A.F. in June of last year and passed out from Wigram on January 15 of this year. He was married to Miss Shirley. Buchanan, Cashmere Hills, a fortnight before he left for Home. Sergeant Pilot Clifford, who died from injuries received when he was accidentally struck by a lorry, was educated at the Cathedral Grammar School and the Timaru Boys’ High School. After leaving school he assisted his father in a photography business in Christchurch. Later he joined a legal firm. He received his flying training at Wigram, and passed out on May 28. He had only been in England about six weeks when the news of his death was received here.