AWARDS FOR AIRMEN
TWO WELLINGTONIANS RECEIVE FLYING CROSSES.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This-Day.
Advice has been received by Air Headquarters that two more New Zealanders serving with the Royal Air Force have been awarded Distinguished Flying Crosses. They are: Wing Commander Geoffrey Tyford Jarman, and Flying Officer Charles Aylmer Pownall.
Wing Commander Jarman, who was born in 1906, was educated at Wellington College. He represented North Otago at Rugby football. In 1930 he was accepted for a short-service commission in the Royal Air Force. He is the son of Mr A. Jarman, 63 Penrose Street, Lower Hutt, Wellington. He married in England, and his wife and two children arrived in New Zealand late in 1940.
Flying Officer Pownall was born in Wellington in 1915 and was •educated at Rongotai and Wellington Colleges. He was selected for a short-service commission in March, 1939, and after training in New Zealand at the Wanganui Aero Club and the R.N.ZA.F. station, Wigram, left New Zealand to join the Royal Air Force. His father is Mr A. B. Pownall, 43 Matai Road, Hataitai, Wellington.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1941, Page 4
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