WAR CASUALTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1941, Page 6

WAR CASUALTIES

MEMBERS OF EXPEDITIONARY FORCE LIST OF 51 NAMES. THIRTEEN SOLDIERS KILLED OR DIED OF WOUNDS. WELLINGTON. This Day. j The following casualties to mem-j bers of the Second New Zealand Ex-1 peditionary Force are reported:— KILLED IN ACTION. Private Geoffrey Wynne Alison. Father. Mr Ewen Alison. Auckland. Private Arthur Henry Nelson Bell. Mother, Mrs E. Grahao, Manunui. Private Leonard Wallace Davey. Father, Mr F. C. Davey. Dargaville. Private Harold George Dodd. Mother, Mrs J. Dodd. Whakatane. Private Jim East. Father, Mr A. J. East, Cambridge. Private Carrel Fidler Ferguson. Mother, Mrs A. I. Ferguson, Whangarei. Private Claude Finch. Brother, Mr S. G. Finch. Hamilton. . Private Clifford Kingsley Grainger. Wife, Mrs K. E. Grainger, Auckland. Private Noel Stewart Leonard. Father, Mr J. H. Leonard, Helensville. Corporal Horace Longworth. Mother, Mrs M. E. Longworth, Wellington. Private Lesqpue Stewart Marshall. Father, Mr F. Marshall, Pakaraka. Private Norman Gilbert Perkins. Father. Mr Gilbert Perkins, Te Puke. DIED OF WOUNDS. Private Hector Onyon. Mother, Mrs E. E. Onyon. Te Awamutu. WOUNDED.

Lieutenant William Alan Pyatt. Father, Mr A. E. Pyatt, Auckland. , Second-Lieutenant Charles M. Coote. , Mother, Mrs Hilda Blanche Coote, Whangarei. Private Clarence William Bayley. . Friend, Mr Herbert Hammon, Dargaville. Private Bernard George Leo Bland. Mr B. F. Bland, Gisborne (relationship not stated). Private Ray Danby Brayshaw. Mother, Mrs E. L. Brayshaw. Palmerston North, Private Kenneth Ronald Brown. Father, Mr William Robert Brown, Kaihu, North Auckland. Private John Alfred Burrows. Mother, Mrs E. Burrows, Mangonui. Private Noel Charles Clifford Crouch. Mother, Mrs M. C. C. Wood, Point Chevalier. Private Patrick Cullinane. Father, Mr David Cullinane, Fordell. Corporal Samuel Frederick Durant. Wife, Mrs E. I. Durant, Dargaville. Private Albert Harry Erskine. Mr W. G. Erskine. Morrinsville (relationship not stated). Private Godfrey Mark Feaver. Wife, I Mrs B, Feaver. 'Whangarei. j Private Cyril Fletcher. Mother, Mrs S. Fletcher, Wellington. Private Reginald Andrew Foster, Brother, Mr T. Foster, Matangi. - Private Frederick William Hislop. Mother, Mrs E. Hislop, Hataitai. Private Jack Douglas Meyer Hooper. 1 Mother, Mrs Gladys Hooper, Kaitaia. 1 Private Albert Roy Hornell. Mother, 1 Mrs E. Hornell. Auckland. < Irwin, Auckland (relationship not 1 stated). ( Private David Arthur Johanson. 1 Mother, Mrs Mabel Johanson, Cam- 1 bridge. i Private Daniel John Kenny. Father, t Mr J. F. Kenny. Victoria, Australia. 1 Private Douglas James Livingstone. c Father, Mr J. S. Livingstone. Auckland. 1 Private Victor Henry McPherson. J Mother, Mrs J. B. McPherson. Wark- \ worth. j Private Eric Howie Nicholls. Wife, <

Mrs Betty Marden Nicholls. Manaia. Private Roy Nickerson. ..Mr J. Nickerson, Gisborne (relationship not stated). Private Hector Stephen Peacock. Father, Mr R. G. Peacock, Murchison. Private Cyril Jellicoe Petersen. Mother.. Mrs L. Petersen, Auckland. Private Carlton Leith Rawson. Mother, Mrs Cecilia Rawson, Taneatua. Private Allan James Stephen Richardson. Mother, Mrs A. E. Richardson, Auckland. Private Michael Rodgers. Mother, Mrs A. A. Rodgers. Stratford. Corporal Donald Thomas Scholium. Father, Mr J. A. Scholium, Te Kauwhata. Corporal Reginald Charles Slade. Father, Mr F. J. Slade, Napier. Private Nathaniel James Alex Smyth. Mother, Mrs Martha Smyth, Ruatoria. East Coast. Sergeant Douglas Spinley. Mother, Mrs S. J. Spinley, Morrinsville. Private Patrick Neville Stephens. Wife, Mrs P. I. Stephens, Te Awamutu. Corporal Lewis Stokes. Father, Mr S. Stokes, Auckland. Private Montague Thomson. Wife, Mrs A. J. Thomson, Auckland. Private Leslie Williams. Foster molhei, Mrs M..V. Morgan, Whangarei. Lance-Corporal Richard Francis Williams. Mother, Mrs F. M. Williams Auckland.

Private Ernest Gilbert Wood. Mother, Mrs B. Wood, Auckland.

AIR FORCE LIST FLYING OFFICER MISSING. SERGEANT BELIEVED KILLED. WELLINGTON, This Day. The following Air Force casualties were announced today: Pilot Officer William Arthur Middleton, R.N.Z.A.F., admitted to hospital. Father. Mr F. C. Middleton. Newmarket. Auckland. Flying Officer Edward Nation Steel, R.A.F., missing in air operations. Father. Mr J. W. Steel, Kilbirnie, Wellington. Sergeant David Leo Nola, R.N.Z.A.F., missing, believed killed, in air operations. Father, Mr I. J. Nola, Tatuanui.