D.F.C. AWARDED
Flight Lieutenant L.
Coleman BOMBING OF MUNICH Dominion Special Service
HASTINGS. November 15. Advise has been received by Mrs. H. N. Coleman. Havelock North, that her son. Flight Lieutenant Lloyd Coleman, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for the part be played iii'the delivery to Munich last Friday of one of the heaviest calibre bombs so far carried by the Royal Air Force, on its bombing raids. Mrs. Coleman received intimation that the decoration had been made in a cable from her son-in-law, ’ Percy Chaffman, the international cricketer. Official advice is not likely to be sent direct to New Zealand because Flight Lieutenant Coleman joined the R.A.I. while lie was resident in England.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 45, 16 November 1940, Page 8
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116D.F.C. AWARDED Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 45, 16 November 1940, Page 8
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