REPORTED MISSING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 140, 14 May 1940, Page 6

REPORTED MISSING

LEVIN PILOT. ON AIR FORCE SERVICE. Per Press Association. LEVIN, Aprill4. Advice has been received that PilotOfficer O. H. Keedwell, the son of Mr and Mrs Keedwell, of Levin, is reported missing as the result of the operations of the Royal Air Force on Sunda pilot-Officer Keedwell, who is 26 years of ago; left the Dominion in. August, 1938. He was recently stationed with a Bristol Bombing Squadron in Suffolk. He was educated at the Levin District High School and Wellington College, and took a keen interest in sporting activities. ' AUCKLANDER KILLED. ANOTHER MISSING. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 13. ' Pilot-Officer lan Lawry Gray. R.A.F.. the son of Mr John Gray, of Devouport, is reported missing as the result of ’ air operations yesterday. Well-known in Auckland by reason of his sporting activities, Pilot-Officer Gray was educated at the Takapuna Grammar School and joined the staff of the New Zealand Co-op. Dairy Company. He took up flying before the war and was trained by the late SquadronLeader Allan at Mangere and went to Wigram with a short service commission in the Royal New, Zealand Air Force. He left the employ of the dairy compans' on June 11, 1938, and took : up his studies tor the Air Force. Oil March 12 last he celebrated his twentyfirst birthday. About the time he took up . flying the Air Force had accepted a number of outstanding young athletes in New Zealand, and Pilot-Officer Gray was no exception. He was a good footballer, cricketer, boxer and lawn tennis player, and had also made a name for himself in swimmifig and golf. As a result of air operations on May 11, Pilot-Officer Henry M.acale Murray, aged 19, r. New Zealander serving with the Royal Air Force, has been posted as missing. Advice to this effect was received from the Air Ministry by Mr F. M. Murray, of Auckland, brother of the missing airman. Pilot-Officer Murray was born in Dunedin and was educated at Wellington College, the Otago Boys’ High School, and the Wairarapa High School. Later he resided for 18 month' in Auckland before leaving for London, where ho arrived in June, 1938. He joined the Royal Air Force and gained flying experience at various training bases in Britain and France before the outbreak of the war. ’ REPORTED KILLED.; Per Press Association. NELSON, May 13. Advice lias been received by Mrs A. Gilbert, of Stoke, Nelson, that her only son, Pilot-Officer Grenville James McFarland, of the R.A.F., is reported to have lost his life in ,air operations on May 10. Pilot-Officer McFarland was ail old boy of Nelson College, having , been head prefect and head of the school. In 1939 he passed the engineering preliminary. He was a member of the school first eleven,in 1936-38, being vice-captain in 1935. He was also a, member of the first fifteeen. Ho was a. sergeant-major in the college cadet corps and proceeded to England to join the R.A.P. in May, 1939. H© was als'o a member of the Nelson representative cricket team.