AIR CASUALTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1942, Page 4

AIR CASUALTIES

NEW ZEALANDERS OVERSEAS SIX DEATHS REPORTED. SEVERAL OTHER MEN MISSING. .. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The following air casualties were announced. today: STANFORD, Leading Airccraftman Albert Desmond, killed in action; wife, Mrs O. B. Stanford. Ohura. O'HALLORAN, Leading Aircraftman Leton Furgus, injured in enemy air raid; wife, Mrs B. O’Halloran, Te Awamutu. / COLVILLE, Sergeant Robert Arthur, dangerously injured in air accident; father, Mr R. A. Colville, Methven. HIBELL,. Sergent Bert Gordon, missing in air operations; mother, Mrs M. M. Hibell, Palmerston North. KENNEDY, Pilot Officer Garnet Allen, missing in air operations; father, Mr J. G. Kennedy, Normanby. MCCARTHY, Pilot Officer Morris Donald Darwin, missing in air operations; mother, Mrs C. McCarthy. Wanganui. VINCENT, Sergeant John Noel, missing; father, Mr J. W. Vincent, Manurewa. WOODHAM, Sergeant Henry William Woodham, died of injuries received in air accident; father, Mr H. Woodham. Christchurch. YEOMAN, Pilot Officer Dallas Harley, missing in air operations; mother, Mrs J. Yeoman, Auckland. MINNIS, Pilot Officer Richard John, previously reported missing, believed killed, death now officially presumed in September; wife, Mrs R. J. Minnis, Wellington. NATION, Sergeant John Ross, previously reported missing, death now officially presumed in July; father, Mr E. C. Nation, Waipawa. REA. Flight Lieutenant William Samuel, previously reported missing, believed killed, death now officially presumed in December; mother, Mrs B. C. Page, Auckland. REID, Sergeant lan Laurie, previously reported missing, death now officially presumed in July; father, Mr R. T. Reid, Auckland.