N.Z. AIRMEN TO SAIL
SERVICE ABROAD AIR CHIEF’S FAREWELL (Pur Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. “The service you are going to is a fine one. It has a 'brief but brilliant tradition. We look to you to uphold that tradition,” said Group Captain Isitt, acting-Chief of the Air Staff, yesterday, in farewelling 17 young officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, the first to leave the Dominion for service abroad since the war began. “You have completed your training here, but do not forget that training is only the beginning. You are learning all the time to improve your gunnery and navigation. On those your success and safety will depend.” Group Captain Isitt also stressed the importance of preparation on the ground and also doing any job given them for the sake of the job and not for any good impression they might make.
“In that way you will become better officers,” he added. “1 wish you all good luck.”
The young men, all with the rank of acting-pilot officer, are:—M. E. F. Barnett, E. N. Best, E. C. J. Cameron, F. H. Denton, J. Duigan, D. V. Gilmour, A. G. L. Humphries, L. D. Loasby, D. 11. McArthur, M. 11. McFarlane, J. E. S. Morton, H. A. Outram, G. N. Parker, C. A. Pownall, D. M. Rolph-Smith, R. C. E. Scott, and J. S. Shorthouse.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20112, 5 December 1939, Page 5
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