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New Zealand Airmen .By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Received November 6, 7 p.m.) LONDON, November 5. Wing Commanders G. G. Stead, Hastings; and J. R. Bloxam. Yew Plymouth, received the D.F.C. from the King at Buckingham Palace recently. Stead has flown 6000 hours. He joined the R.A.F. in -1930, and was engaged in civil flying in 1935-40. He started the Stockholm service for Bri-tish-Continental Airways before it became British Airways. He took high ranking officers of the R.A.F. to France as passengers after the outbreak of the war. He then joined the R.A.F. in April, 1940, and was posted io llying-boats. He was stationed in one year at the 'Shetlands, Iceland, the Mediterranean, and West Africa, flying Sniiderlands. He is now chief instructor a; a flying-boat operational, training centre. Bloxam operated at Malta.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 37, 7 November 1942, Page 8
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136FURTHER HONOURS Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 37, 7 November 1942, Page 8
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