COBBER KAIN’S D.F.C.D

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24415, 28 September 1940, Page 5

COBBER KAIN’S D.F.C.D

PRESENTED TO HIS MOTHER AUDIENCE AT THE PALACE ACCOMPANIED BY MISS J. KAIN (From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON. Sept. 9. With her daughter in Women’* Auxiliary Air Force uniform standing by her side, Mrs R. G. Kain, mother of the late Flying Officer E. J. (“ Cobber ”) Kain, received her dead son’s Distinguished Flying Cross from the King on September 4 at a private audience in Buckingham Palace. The Queen was not oresent. The King stood talking with Mrs Kain and Miss Judy Kain while he held in his hands the case containing the medal. He told them of his sympathy with them in their loss, and regretted that he had been unable to meet Flying Officer Kain. Then he handed the case to Mrs Kain and shook hands with them. And the audience was ended. ~ Mrs Kain and her daughter drove back from the Palace in the High Commissioner’s car, which Mr W. J. Jordan had loaned them, and they were met infernally by a number of New Zealanders and their friends at the New Zealand Forces Club. Among those present were the High Commissioner and Mrs Jordan, and Miss MacDonald of the Isles. The medal was handed round and admired. Miss Kain, who is training to be a radio operator with the W. A.A.F., arid “her. mother met several New Zealand airmen who asked to be introduced. “I am so glad that I was able to receive the medal from the King,” Mrs Kain said. “He was so nice—and he looked so young.”