AIR CASUALTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1941, Page 6

AIR CASUALTIES

OFFICERS & MEN PRESUMED KILLED PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. ADVICE FROM LONDON. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The following member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is reported missing on operations: —Sergeant Richard Raymond Thomas; father, Mr R. C. Thomas. Auckland. The Air Ministry, London, advises that the following New Zealand airmen and officers who have been posted missing or missing believed killed for a period exceeding six months are now officially presumed to have been killed:— Pilot Officer Clement Neville Buist, aunt, Mrs A. M. Esam, Wellington. Pilot Officer Vernon Allan Cunningham; mother, Mrs F. C. Cunningham, Wellington. Flying Officer John Ernest Edwards; mother. Mrs M. M. K. Edwards. Auckland. Flying Officer Ewen Campbell Lilburn; mother. Mrs R. Lilburn, Wanganui. Pilot Officer John Douglas Bruorton McKenzie; father, Mr M. T. McKenzie, Christchurch. Flving Officer Samuel James Millen, D. father, Mr S. G. A. Millen. Wanganui. Pilot Officer John Dawson Murphy; father. Mr J. P. Murphy, Riverlea. Sergeant Alfred Henry Ritchie: mother, Mrs A. Ward, Auckland. Pilot Officer Reginald William Roots; father. Mr C. W. Roots, Wellington. Pilot Officer Gordon Cranleigh Saunders; father, Mr F. G. Saunders, Wellington. Pilot Officer Rupert Edward Short; father, Mr T. E. Short, Auckland. Pilot’ Officer Desmond Arthur Todd; father, Mr W. A. Todd, Masterton. Pilot Officer Arthur Hugh Moncrief Wright; father, Mr A. H. M. Wright, Wellington. Pilot Officer George James Denzil Yorke; father, Mr G. F. Yorke, Foxton.