AIR FORCE CASUALTIES.
POIIANGINA PILOT KILLED
Per Press Association, WELLINGTON, Sept, 29. The following casualties are officialljannounced: — SERGEANT ALFRED FREDERICK BLATCIJ, 8.N.Z.A.F., missing in air operations; brother, Air J. IT. A. Blateh, Lynwood Street, Lumsden. SERGEANT JOHN STEPHEN LANE, R.N.Z.A.F., seriously injured in flying accident and admitted to hospital; wife, Airs K. S. Lane, 45 Honinea Road, Hataitai, Wellington.
PILOT-OFFICER EIUC ORCIAS, killed in air operations; father, Air A. E. Ovgias, Poliangina, Palmerston North.
PILOT OFFICER PATTISON. AVAIPAWA, Sept. 28. Pilot-Offieer John G. Pattison, AA’aipawa, who was mentioned in a recent Air Force casualty list as being seriously wounded and placed on the dangerously ill list, is a son of Air C. Pattison, chairman of the PaL.ngata County Council and Central Hawke’s Bay Electric Power Board. Soon after the outbreak of . the war Pilot-Officer Pattison joined the Air Force, and after training at Alarlborough, where he qualified as a pilot, he went overseas lour and a half mouths ago to join the R.A.F. He is in his early twenties. Air Pattison’s other son Brian will enter camp at Burnham on Tuesday with the iquvtli reinforcements,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 259, 30 September 1940, Page 6
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185AIR FORCE CASUALTIES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 259, 30 September 1940, Page 6
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