KILLED IN ACTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1940, Page 6

KILLED IN ACTION

YOUNG MARLBOROUGH AIRMAN. BRIEF BUT DISTINGUISHED CAREER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ‘ *. BLENHEIM, This Day. News has been received that Squad-ron-Leader Terence Gunion Lovell Gregg, youngest son of Mrs and the late Dr Lovell Gregg, of Picton, has been killed in action. He was 26 years of ageyj He qualified as a pilot nine years ago, with the Marlborough Aero Club, and proceeded to England, receiving a commission in the R.A.F. Then the youngest pilot in Australasia, he was promoted to flight-lieutenant when 21 and to'squadron-leader at the end of last year. He was educated at Nelson College, where he had a brilliant scholastic career. He had intended entering Otago University to study for the medical profession, but was hold back owing to his youth and took up flying in the meantime. WELLINGTON LAD. 1 DEATH IN FLYING ACCIDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Cabled advice that their son. Acting Leading Aircraftsman Edward Culley has been killed on war service, as a result of a flying accident at Lee-on-Solent. has been received by Mr and Mrs E. Culley, Lower Hutt, this week. Aircraftsman Culley, who was eighteen years of age, left for England for service with the Fleet Air Arm on November 16 of last year. He was educated at Scots College and Wellington College and was particularly prominent in swimming and Rugby football circles. He was a member of the Wellington College First Fifteen for two seasons.