WAR CASUALTIES

Evening Star, Issue 24292, 5 September 1942, Page 4

WAR CASUALTIES

ONE OTAGO NAME (P.A.) WELLINGTON, September 4. The following 2nd N.Z.E.F. casualty list was issued to-night (the rank is private unless otherwise stated) : OTAGO. --Not Wounded.— (Previously Reported Wounded.) Graham, Thomas, Dunedin. OTHER DISTRICTS. —Killed in Action.— Gorton, George Joseph William; wife, Mrs E. M. Gorton, Mokarewa. Pirini, Waka; uncle, Mr N. Thompson, Ruatoria. Swale, Sergeant Andrew McLeod; wife, Mrs H. J. Swale, Invercargill. —Wounded and Missing.— Mitchell, Second-lieutenant Don, Nubaka. Karauria, Pango Rangi, Gisborne. Wallace, Wilbert Harwood, Dannevirkc. —Missing, and Remains on Wounded List.— Kennedy, Patrick Gordon, Papatoetoe, —Wounded and Missing, Believed Prisoner.— Munns, Bertram Raymond, Auckland. Trounson, Eric Mervyn, Wolisford. —Missing.— Scott, Gordon Howard, Pareora East. Tohiariki, Peter, Te Puke. —Wounded.— Tanner, Lieutenant Victor Joseph, Tauranga. Lum, George, Timaru. Mansel, Herbert Ralph, Tauranga. Pasley, Corporal Thomas Brieriey, Auckland. Robert, Sergeant Leslie Percy, Palmerston North. Swale, Herbert Lewis, Waitoa. —Not Missing, But Wounded. — Walker, Joe, Kaitaia. ALEXANDRA AIRMAN INJURED. (P.A.) ' WELLINGTON, September 4. The following Air Force casualties were announced to-day (all R.N.Z.A.F., except where otherwise stated); — Ashwortir Flying-officer Arthur, D. 5.0., D.P.G., R.A.F., slightly injured in aircraft accident; mother, Mrs B. H. Ashworth Alexandra. Burns, Sergeant William Stead, killed in aircraft accident; mother, Mrs N. S. Burns, Timaru. Doherty. Sergeant Kenneth Herbert, seriously ill; father, Mr H. J. Doherty, Otahuhu. Forgie, Sergeant William Arthur, killed on air operations; mother, Mrs W. Fergie, Papanui. Griffith Sergeant Richard Owen, seriously ill; father, Mr F. Griffith, Manaia. McAlpino, Sergeant Walter Duncan, slightly injured in aircraft accident; mother, Mrs G. M. McAipine, Christchmch Melbourne, Sergeant Desmond James, slightly injured in aircraft accident; mother, Mrs M. V. Melbourne, Christchurch. Meiuies, Sergeant Patrick, slightly injured in aircraft accident; uncle, Mr E. Laredo, Hastings. Monk, Sergeant Ronald John, slightly injured in aircraft accident; wife, Mrs R. J. Monk, Gisborne Rowe, Flight-sergeant Nelson Raymond, killed on air operations; father, Mr C. Rowe, Pukcaruhe. Salter, Flight-sergeant Edward William, removed from seriously ill list; Huia. Stanford, Pilot-officer Kynaston John, D.F.M., prisoner of war; father, Mr J. R. L. Stanford, Marion.