AIR PROMOTION
NeAv Group Captain
The promotion of Wing Commander J. L. Findlay, M.C., to the temporary rank of group captain in the general duties branch of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is contained in the ■current Gazette. Group Captain Findlay is one of New Zealand’s best-known Air Force officers, and for some years was in command at Wigram, near Christehurch. In the last war, Group Captain .Findlay served with the East Surrey Regiment as lieutenant and then captain, and was wounded at. Loos ami the Somme. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917, and was later a:warded a. permanent commission in the Royal Air .Fore. However, in 1921 he resigned his commission and returned to New Zealand, where he joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force on its establishment in 1923.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 43, 14 November 1940, Page 11
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135AIR PROMOTION Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 43, 14 November 1940, Page 11
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