AUCKLAND AIRMAN
MISSING
SERVICE WITH R.A.Fi
(By Telejgraph—Pr'ees Assbdation.) £ ':%:0A * T ,'■" A^CKLAJro,;:AprU ■; 15.
Cabled advice has been received that Flying-Officer .Kenneth; John/ '[ Allan.; Jfohristone, Royal Air^orce,sori of ;Mrr: J. ii.; iJohnstarie,' Manurewa, is missing and believed killed after operations on Friday. ■ , .. Flying-Officer Johnstone attended the' Auckland . Grammar School. He left-New,Zealand in August, 1937, with one, of. the earliest detachments sent from the.Dominion to the, Royal Air Force. Haying obtained.his civil pilot'slicence; he .attended ;,a'-school of navigation at'MSrston, and on passing out was:-.p6sted;to; the 106 th Bomber Squadron I'as a'navigator. At first he' was stationed at Thoraby, Yorkshire, , and at the outbreak of war he was trans-, ferred to Wellington, Lincolnshire. He was an enthusiastic: musician and played in the Bohemian Orchestra while still a schoolboy. - :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 90, 16 April 1940, Page 7
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125AUCKLAND AIRMAN Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 90, 16 April 1940, Page 7
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