KILLED ON SERVICE
NEW ZEALAND AIRMAN. SON OF DANNEVIRKE VETERAN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE, This Day. Cabled advice has been received of the death on active service of PilotOfficer Phillip Vartan, youngest son of Mr R. B. Vartan, secretary of the Dannevirke R.S.A. and himself a veteran of the South African War. PilotOfficer Vartan was 22 years of age. Born in Dannevirke, he finished his schooling at the Dannevirke High School and later joined up with the Hawke's Bay Farmers’ Co-operative Association, before proceeding to England, in September, 1938, on a shortterm commission in the Royal Air Force. He received his wings about 12 months ago. Since then he had been attached to the Coastal Command.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1940, Page 6
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