WAR CASUALTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1941, Page 4

WAR CASUALTIES

NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE SIXTEEN DEATHS REPORTED. FOUR MEN PRISONERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The deaths of 16 members of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. are reported in a casualty list issued last night, and four more men arc listed as prisoners of war. The list is as follows:— DIED OF WOUNDS. The Following Prisoner of War Died of Wounds —Previously Reported Missing. HEATH, Mervyn H„ Gnr. Mrs F. Heath. 39 Rhodes St., Merivale, Christchurch (m) Died—Previously Reported Missing. BELLRINGER, Trevor C„ Bdr. Mr F. T. Bellringer, Box 92. New Plymouth (f) BOWN, Robert J., Pte. Mr J. Bown, Pelorus Bridge, Marlborough (f) DEAN, Roy A., Gnr. Mrs L. A. Dean, 38 Christchurch Rd., Worthington, Sussex, England (m) ELLIOTT, Harold J., L/Cpl. Mr H. />. Elliot, 62 Lonsdale Gres., (f) GILLESPIE, John, L/Cpl. Mr J. Gillespie, Carolelis, County Antrim, Ireland (f) HAMILTON, Percy C„ Spr. Mrs M. C. C. Stevens, Kensington Rd., South Dunedin (m) HANSEN, Clarence W„ Pte. Mr A. W. Hansen, Clarence St., Hamilton (f) HIGGINS, Leonard R„ Pte. Mr C. M. Higgins, Hamilton (b) JOHNSON, Noel F„ T/Sgt. Mrs M. J. T. Johnson, 41 Shortland St.. Auckland (m) LEITCH, Kenneth E„ Pte., Mr G. Leitch, Hunua, Rural Delivery (f) OGILVY. James, Pte. Mrs J. Ogilvy, 31 Nile Rd., Takapuna (m) LYONS-PHILP. Thomas B„ Pte. Mrs A. Lyons-Philp, Torbay (m) POUTU, John, Pte. Mrs C. Kemp,

Ruatoria (m) SADLER, Mervyn D._ Spr. Mr W, E. D. Sadler, 24 Symonds St., Auckland (f) WHITE, Ivan R„ Spr. Mr R. White. 20 Cleveland Rd., Parnell (f) Prisoners of War—Previously Reported Missing. JACKSON. Leo G„ L/Cpl. Mrs E. M. F. Jackson, C/o Mrs Pegg, Main Western School Haywards (w) MULHOLLAND, Edgar D„ L/Cpl. Mr F. B. Mulholland, 189 Bligh’s Road, Papanui (f) RIDER, Dudley H„ Sgt. Mr A. H. Rider, Turakina (f) WOOD, Raymond E„ Pte. Mr E. R. Wood. Wainui-o-mata, Lower Hutt •(f) AIR CASUALTIES Air Headquarters, Wellington, announced the following casualties yesterday:—

SCOTT. Christopher F., Sgt., previously reported missing in December, later reported prisoner of war and wounded, now safe in England: Mr J. Scott, Box 53, Raukapuka, Geral-

dine (f) HUNT, John F„ Pilot Officer, R.N.Z.A.F., previously reported seriously injured in aircraft accident, now reported killed in aircraft .accident. Mrs J, F. Hunt, 33 Marine Parade, Herne Bay, Auckland (w)