WAR CASUALTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1941, Page 4

WAR CASUALTIES

NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE LIST OF FIVE PRISONERS. ONE DEATH REPORTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The names of six members of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force are given in a casualty list issued yesterday. One is dead and five are prisoners of war. The list follows: ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. PERRY, Walter J., S/Sgt. Mr W. A. Perry, 145 Main Rd., Redcliffs (f).

PRISONERS OF WAR. Previously Reported Presumed DiFd

of Wounds. TONKIN, Leonard W.,’ Pte. Mr W. H. Tonkin, Dargaville (f).

Previously Reported Missing, Believed Prisoner of War. HURST, Walter E. W., 4th Class. Mrs B. C. Hurst, 49 Pitt St., Wadestown (w).

Previously Reported Wounded and

Missing. CAMERON, James B„ L/Cpl. Mrs M. D. Cameron, 94 London Rd., Salisbury, Wiltshire, England (w).

Previously Reported Missing. LOFTS, Patrick S., A/L/Bdr. Mr F. Lofts, “Gulistan,” New Monteviot Rd., Kurseong, D.H. Railway, North ’ Bengal. India (f). WOODS, Joseph, T/Sgt. Master C. A. Moir, c/o Mrs M. B. Moir, 147 Clyde St., Island Bay (s). AIR CASUALTY Air Headquarters, Wellington, announced the following casualty last night:—

FORD, Leslie L, Sgt., R.N.Z.A.F., missing as the result of air operations. Mrs Ford, 47 Nairn St., Wellington (w).