KILLED IN ACTION

Evening Star, Issue 23695, 1 October 1940, Page 6

KILLED IN ACTION

NOTED AIRMAN-SON OF FIRST WAR V.G. [Bek United Pkess Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 30. Flight-lieutenant W. H. RhodesMoorfiouso, D.F.C., who was reported in to-day’s broadcast from London to have been killed iu action, was a sou of the late Mr William Barnard Bhodcs-Moorhonse, the first airman to be awarded the Victoria Cross in the Great War. Flight-lieutenant W. H. Rhodes-Moorhouso, who was awarded the D.F.C. iu July for bringing down 23 enemy machines, had many relatives in New Zealand. Mr John Rhodes, of Christchui’ch, is a cousin. Born in March, 1914, Flight-lieuten-ant Rhodes-Moovhouse entered Eton College about 1928. Learning to fly while still a schoolboy, ho gained his pilot’s certificate at the age of IC. On leaving college, ho lived iu London for some years, continuing to fly with the well-known aviator, Mr T. Camp-bell-Black. Later he became a tost pilot in a district near London, and became a permanent member of the Royal Air Force just before the outbreak of war. In 1934 he inherited the entailed estate of his great-grandfather, Mr W. B.'Rhodes, of Highland Park, Wellington. His grandfather was the late Mr Edward Moorhouse, a brother of Mr Sefton Moorhouse. In 1936_ he married Miss Amalia Demetriadi, daughter of Sir Stephen Demetriadi, at that time president of the London Chamber of Commerce. ■ AUCKLAND, September 3d Advice has been received that Sergeant-gunner James Bracegirdle was killed in action. ITe was reported missing on September IT. TTis t*at|ier is Mr A. Bracegirdle, of Parnell. FIRST ECHELON CASUALTY WELLINGTON, September 30. The following New Zealand Expeditionary Force casualty was announced to-night:— Private William John Orlowski, 20th Canterbury and Otago Battalion, died in Egypt from shock following burns the result of an accident cii September 26. His fatber is Mr I*. S. Orlowski, Junction Hotel, Oamam. AUCKLAND AIRMAN PROMOTED SQUADRON LEADER [Pee United Pkess Association.] AUCKLAND, October 1. Flight-lieutenant O. W. K. Nicholls, Royal Air Force, has been promoted squadron leader, according to a cable received by his parents, of Westmere, Auckland. Until lately he was attached to a fighter squadron, and served in France during the Dunkirk evacuation, being among the last group of pilots to leave France. He was in the same squadron as Cobber Kain. Squadronleader Nicholls is 26 years of age and married. He received his preliminary training at Mangere, and was educated at the Mount Albert Grammar School. THE SUBMARINE SHARK SOME OF PERSONNEL BELIEVED TO BE PRISONERS LONDON, September 30. (Received October 1, at 11.50 a.m.) Five officers and several members of the crew from H.M.S. Shark are believed to be prisoners in Norway. [On July 15 the British submarine Shark was reported overdue, and the Admiralty announced that the vessel must he consdered lost. The Shark mas of 670 tons.]