TIMARU BROTHERS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 6

TIMARU BROTHERS

Serving In Submarines (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Special Correspondent.) (Received October 19, 7 p.m.) LONDON, October 18. Two brothers from Timaru, Lieutenants A. G. Tait, R.N., and J. 1 1 . Tait, R.N.Z.N.V.R., are among the New Zealanders serving in submarines. A. G. Tait joined the Royal Navy in 193 J and was a midshipman in the Nigeria before becoming a member of the crew of a submarine. He was a gunnery officer, and is now a first lieutenant serving in a boat commanded by Lieutenant-Comman-der Wingfield, R.N., which surfaced in an Italian harbour aud bombarded a wareh°j“CF. Tait, a former Otago. Uni versify student, arrived in England in IJ4I as an ordinary seaman. He served in .he Arethusa. which escored two convoys to Malta. After being commissioned, he did two more Malta convoys in the destroyer Ithuriel. She once rammed an Italian submarine off Sicily. Tait was among those sent aboard to try and take her over. He was below when the boat star.ed to sink, so he scrambled up and was sitting on the conning tower when the submarine sank beneath him. He swam in a .warm sea for half an hour before being’ picked up. . T , He began a submarine course in December, 1942, and for a month took the same course as his younger brother, tie is now navigator in a submarine.