NEW ZEALAND AIRMAN
. REPORTED MISSING [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 10. Pilot-officer Cedric Nicholas Whittington, of the lloyal Air Force, younger son of a well-known Taranaki family, has been reported missing, and is believed to be dead, according to cabled advice reveived in New Zealand. No further details were contained in the cablegram Pilot-officer Whittington, who is the younger son of Mr C. C. Whittington, of Ebute Metta, Nigeria, British West Africa, and formerly of Hawera, left New Zealand early this year to join the Royal Air Force in England. He was educated at New' Plymouth Boys’ High School, and was a member of the school Rugby first eleven, and also gained life saving and debating cups. On leaving school he joined the staff, of an accountancy firm in New Plymouth, and played Rugby for the Old Boys’ Club’s senior fifteen there. Later he joined the Civil Reserve of Pilots and then the Royal New Zealand Air Force, training at Wigram aerodrome, Christchurch. While in Christchurch he was a member of the Air Force senior Rugby team. He was a very promising footballer, and was considered to be a likely Canterbury representative. Pilot-officer Whittington had his tw'enty-first birthday last month.
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Evening Star, Issue 23368, 11 September 1939, Page 8
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201NEW ZEALAND AIRMAN Evening Star, Issue 23368, 11 September 1939, Page 8
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