CASUALTY LIST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1941, Page 4

CASUALTY LIST

, NEW ZEALAND FORCES OPERATIONS IN WESTERN DESERT. THREE MEN FATALLY WOUNDED. I (By Telegraph—Press Association.* WELLINGTON. This Day. The following official casualty list from the N.Z.E.F. in the Middle East was issued yesterday:— DIED OF WOUNDS (WESTERN DESERT). Corporal Osbert Thornton Pussell, previously reported wounded now reported died of wounds. Next of kin. Mr O. Pussell. Kimbolton (father). Driver Alfred Bertram Hurst, previously reported wounded, now reported died of wounds. Next of kin. Mr G. Hurst, North Ireland (father). Lance-Corporal Vernon Lindsay Norrish, previously reported missing now reported died of wounds. Next of kin. Air V. A. Norrish St. Albans. Christchurch. WOUNDED (WESTERN DESERT). S/Sergcant Cecil Henry Broomfield. Next of kin. Mrs C. H. Broomfield. 92 Happy Valley Road. Wellington (wife). Driver Edward Spencer Staveley. Next of kin. Mr G. Staveley. 70 Wellington Road. Wellington (brother). Gunner Robert High Burton. Next of kin. Mrs M. M. Burton, 28 Kildare Avenue. St. Heliers (wife). Driver Robert Noel Campbell, wound by enemy air bombs. Next of kin: Mr W. A. N. Campbell. Taumarunui (father). MISSING PILOT. INVERCARGILL January 1. (By Telegraph—Press Association ,• Advice was received in Invercargillj today that Pilot Officer R. G. Start' was reported missing in air operations. He was a partner in the firm of Webb and Stark, public accountants. He joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force as observer in January 1910. and left for England last July,