AIR FORCE CASUALTIES
LATEST NOTIFICATIONS. The following air casualties were announced yesterday:— Pilot-Officer W. S. Shann, previously reported missing, now reclassified as missing, believed killed in action. Flying-Officer William Baker Parker, previously reported dangerously ill from injuries received on air operations, now removed from danger list. Father: Mr E .S. Parker, Springlands, Blenheim. Advice has reached the Rev. G. W. and Mrs Hunt, Miramar, Wellington, that their younger' son, Sergeant-Pilot G. W. Hunt, has been killed in an airaccident in England. Sergeant-Pilot Hunt was educated at Upper Hutt Primary School, where he was the first scholar to be awarded a Junior Free Scholarship, and at the Hutt Valley High School. He was subsequently employed by the A.M.P. Society. Before the war he joined the Civil Reserve of Pilots, being given his early training under that scheme. He enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Air Force shortly after war broke out and went into camp almost immediately. He went over-seas a few months ago.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1940, Page 4
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