FLYING CROSS
AWARDED TO WANGANUI AIRMAN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, This Day. Flying-Officer Alan Deere, of Wanganui, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and has been promoted to Flight-Lieutenant. A.dvice to this effect has been received by his parents in a cablegram from their son. The exploit for which he was decorated is not mentioned but is presumed to have taken place either in the evacuationfrom Dunkirk or in the fighting on the Somme front. Flight-Lieuten-ant Deere is a son of Mr T. J. Deere, W anganui.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1940, Page 4
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