Wellington Pilot Officer Killed

Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 20, 13 September 1940, Page 1

Wellington Pilot Officer Killed

ITILLERYMAN DROWNED ?he' following casualties involving sv Zealanders in the armed forces re announced recently : Expeditionary Force, Egypt. lunner Herbert Arrowsmith Hami, reported missing, believed drowned

as a result of an accident. Father: Mr. C. A. Hamblin, 35 Hobart Street, Miramar. v Air Force. Sergeant Lawrence Francis Mabey, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on air operations. Father: Mr. F. Mabey, Kelvin Grove, Palmerston North. Pilot Officer John Sinclair Priestley, R.N.Z.A.F., killed mi air operations. Father: Mr. J. O. Priestley, 184 Glenmore Street, Wellington. ■■ ■ The Minister of Defence, Mr. Jones, regrets to report the death of an air: craftman. Kenneth William .Sando, Royal New Zealand Air Force, in the Christchurch Public Hospital, on the evening of August 31. Aircraftman Sando was admitted on August 28, when he .was reported to be seriously ill. His father is Mr. A. Sando., Auckland. KILLED IN ACTION Advice that her son Flight Sergeant H. E. A. Craven, aged 24, of the Royal Air Force,* was killed in action on July 2 has been received by Mrs. A. T. Craven, formerly of Dunedin and now of Lawrence. Mrs. Craven was advised on July 18 that her son was missing, but it was only this week that she was informed that he had been killed. . The following air casualties were announced recently : — l Sergeant T. C. M. Browne, R N.Z.A.F., missing on air operations. Father: Mr. G. M. Browne, Revans Street, Featherston. ' _ _ Sergeant Lawrence Francis Mabey, 1 R.N.Z.A.F., previously reported missing on air operations, now reported by International Red Cross to be prisoner - of war. Father: Mr. F Mabey, Kelvin Grove, Palmerston North,.