CASUALTY LIST
AIR FORCE OFFICERS
The following Air Force casualties were announced today:—
Sergeant Alfred Barnett Witton, K.N.Z.A.F., previously missing on air operations, now reported prisoner of war. Father: Mr. F. J. Witton, Kopane, R.D.; Palmerston North.
Sergeant Alfred Frederick Blatch, R.N.Z.A.F., previously missing on air operations, now repotted killed in action. Brother: Mr. J. H. A. Blatch, Lynwood Street, Lumsden.
Advice has been received by the Rev. G. W. and Mrs. Hunt, Miramar, Wellington, that their younger son, Sergeant Pilot G. W. Hunt, has been killed in an air accident in England.
Sergeant Pilot Hunt was educated at Upper Hutt Primary School, where he was the first scholar to be awarded a Junior Free Scholarship, and at the Hutt Valley High School. He was subsequently employed by the A.M.P. Society. Before the war he joined the Civil Reserve of Pilots, being given his early training under that scheme. He enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Air Force shortly after war broke out and went into camp almost immediately. He went overseas a few months ago.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 92, 15 October 1940, Page 11
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