MEDALS FOR VALOUR
Awards To New Zealanders
Tributes to their detenniuatioii and tenacity in pressing home attacks in the face o£ heavy odds are paid in citations accompanying awards of the Distinguished Flying Gross to two New Zealand officers serving overseas. The airmen decorated are Flying Officers Rov Oldfield Calvert and Cyril Keith Silcock, R.N.Z.A.F. Flying Oflicer Calvert,, at the beginning of this -month, took part in the 94-bomber raid on tae Le Creusot. armament works. Flying Officer Silcoek’s award follows a spectacular attack in September by the aircraft of which he was captain on an aircraft factory in northern Germany Flying Officer Calvert, who will be 29 years old on. October 31 was born in Cambridge, and educated at the Southwell School, Hamilton, and King’s College, Auckland. His father is Mr. G. Calvert, 20 Victoria Street, Cambridge. Born in Nelson in May, 1915, Flying Officer Silcock was educated at the Nelson College and the Nelson Technical School. His wife, Mrs. F. Silcock, resides at 176 Waimea Street, Nelson, and his father, Mr. F. T. Silcock, at Totara Street, Nelson.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 30, 30 October 1942, Page 4
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180MEDALS FOR VALOUR Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 30, 30 October 1942, Page 4
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