DUNEDIN AIRMAN’S PROMOTION
. Advice has been received of the promotion of Pilot-officer A. M. Paape, of Dunedin, to the rank of flight-lieutenant. Flight-lieu-tenant Paape. who is the son of Mr A. A. Paape, is only 21 years of age. He gained his proficiency certificate at the High Street School at the age of 11 and matriculated at the Waitaki Boys High School at the age of 14. He received his preliminary training as an airman at the; Taieri aerodrome and, after a course at Wigram.' left for England with eight other pilot officers in April. 1938. One of this group was Pilotofficer, L. Edwards, who was the first British ainnah to be interned as a prisoner of war in Germany, his machine being brought down shortly after the outbreak of war during a raid on the Kiel Canal. Flight-lieutenant Paape began his war service as the pilot of a Bristol Blenheim plane and in May last became navigation officer of one of the big Handley Page Hampden bombers. Up to the beginning of August he had had 20 flights over Germany.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24424, 9 October 1940, Page 8
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181DUNEDIN AIRMAN’S PROMOTION Otago Daily Times, Issue 24424, 9 October 1940, Page 8
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