CASUALTY LIST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1941, Page 4

CASUALTY LIST

NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE FOUR KILLED & TWENTY-THREE WOUNDED. ONE MASTERTON NAME. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. A casualty list issued last evening contains the names of 27 members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Four have been killed in action, and 23 are reported to have been wounded. The list is as follows, the name of the soldier being followed by that of his next-of-kin with the nature of the relationship 'in parentheses: KILLED IN ACTION. Gunner Walter Roland Clarke. Mr E. Clarke, Duke Street, Papakura (father). Sergeant Lionel Charles Clews. Mi' T. G. Clews. Peverlll Crescent. Papatoetoe (son). Gunner James Herbert Cosson. Mrs E. Cosson. 8 Mauripara Avenue, Point Chevalier (wife). Gunner Lyle Joseph Petersen. Mr A. J. Petersen. 6 Casel Street. Masterton (father). WOUNDED. Major Arthur Vincent Jenkins. Mrs M. K. Jenkins. 12 Wallaringa Avenue. Neutral Bay, Sydney (wife). Lieutenant Eric Harold Blow. Mr \ H. I. Blow, 12 Reimers Avenue, Auck- * land (father). Lieutenant Guy Napier Richardson. Mrs J. F. Richardson, 31 Boston Road, Mount Eden, Auckland (wife). 2nd Lieut. Edmond Clive Foot, Mrs Elsie C. Foot. 48a Stanley Pt. road, Devonport (wife). 2nd Lieut. Ernest Gordon Lewis. Mr G. H. Lewis, 26 Nelson Street. New Brighton, Christchurch (father). Gunner lan Anderson. Mrs B. E. Anderson, c/o J. Thrupp, Turua, Thames (wife). Gunner Jack Wilfred Barker. Mrs G. Barker. 36 Cambria Street, Nelson (mother). Lance-Bombardier James Ivan Burrowes. Mrs N. E. Burrowes, 47 Moray Place, Dunedin (wife). Gunner Charles William .Corner. Mrs S. O. Corner. Nelson Park, Napier (mother). Gunner George Albert Hansen. Mrs M. A. Hansen, Melmore Terrace, Cromwell (mother). Gunner Herbert Sydney Harper. Mrs J. Harper, 27 Roger Street, Waltham, Christchurch (mother). Gunner Mervyn Head. Mrs N. M. Head, c/o E. C. Watkins, Box 7, Mount Maunganui (wife). Gunner George Albert Johnston. Mr F. C. Johnston, High Street. Lower Hutt (relationship not stated). Gunner Ronald Arthur Kirby. Mr H. M. Kirby, Police Station, Hamilton East (father). Gunner Norman Mackay. Mrs E. Mackay, 171 Ponsonby Road, Auckland (mother). Gunner David Roderick McLeod. Mrs E. A. McLeod, Springdale, Waitoa (mother). Gunner Patrick John Madden. Mrs L. Madden, 21 MacDonald Street, Napier (mother). Lance Bombardier Eric William Henry Muir. Mrs Leah Muir, 135 Seaview Road, Westown. New Plymouth (mother). Gunner Geoffrey Edward Smith. Mrs J. C. Smith. 531 Great South Road. Penrose, Auckland (mother). Gunner Ronald Campbell Smith. Mrs J. C. Smith. 531 Great South Road, Penrose. Auckland (mother). Gunner Walter Edward Stride. Mr Alec McDonald, c/o Matson and Co., Christchurch (cousin). Gunner Gordon Leslie Wiggins. Mrs Laura Palmer, 32 Kingsland Ave., Auckland (sister). Gunner Brown Gustavas Yates. Mrs E. Yates, c/o Mrs E. J. Yates. Weymouth. Auckland (mother). AIR CASUALTIES THREE NOW PRESUMED DEAD. CARTERTON SERGEANT KILLED. The following air casualties were reported yesterday:— ‘Pilot Officer Brian Henry Herrick, R.A.F., previously reported missing in November. 1940, now presumed dead. Mr E. J. Herrick. Lindisfarne, Hastings (father). Leading Aircraftman Raymond Robin Henry Nuttall. R.A.F., previously reported missing in June, 1940, now presumed dead. Detective-Sergeant H. Nuttall, Napier (father). Pilot Officer Nicoll Brian Fawcett. R.A.F., reported missing in August, now officially presumed dead. Mr F. P. Fawcett, solicitor. Feilding (father). Sergeant Douglas John -McPherson, R.N.Z.A.F., killed on air operations. > Mrs A. E. McPherson. 8 Victoria St.. Carterton (mother).

Pilot Officer Hugh Upton Howard Tripp. R.A.F., missing on air operations. Rev H. H. Tripp. Hakatararnea, Orari (father).