N.Z. AIR SERVICES
NEW DIRECTOR COMING FROM ENGLAND NOTABLE CAREER IN WAR (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Reed. 9 a.m. LONDON, Wednesday. Wing-Commander Stuart GrantDalton will embark by the Tamaroa on August 16 for a two years’ appointment as director of New Zealand Air Services. Wing - Commander Grant - Dalton, D. 5.0., A.F.C., is 43 years of age. Tie was educated at Uppingham and Sandhurst, and gazetted to the Yorkshire Regiment in 1906. He served in Cyprus, Egypt, Khartoum, and India. He was adjutant of the fifth battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment from September, 1913, till he was wounded at Ypres in 1915. He was mentioned in dispatches at that time. He obtained a pilot’s certificate with the Royal Flying Corps in January. 1916, and went to Egypt, where he was severely wounded in August of that year. He was awarded the D.S.O. and bar, the Order of the Nile, and was again mentioned in dispatches.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 700, 27 June 1929, Page 9
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157N.Z. AIR SERVICES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 700, 27 June 1929, Page 9
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