WAR CASUALTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1942, Page 2

WAR CASUALTIES

NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE YESTERDAY’S LIST. FOUR DEATHS REPORTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The following N.Z.E.F. casualty list was issued yesterday:— KILLED IN ACTION—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. O'RORKE, Forbes, Lieut., Hororata. KILLED IN ACTION — PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, BELIEVED PRISONER OF WAR. HEWLETT, Walter, Dvr., Lumsden. DIED OF WOUNDS — PREVIOUSLY REPORTED WOUNDED AND MISSING. TOD, Harold D., Pte., Seacliff. DIED WHILE PRISONER OF WAR. ARTHUR Hugh W., Pte., Paraparaumu. WOUNDED AND MISSI NG—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED WOUNDED. ROGERS, Edward, Pte., Rotorua. PRISONER OF WAR—PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. NICHOLLS. Douglas, T/Sgt„ Sydney. AIR CASUALTIES The following New Zealand air personnel serving overseas have been reported as casualties:— BLUNDEN, Neil R., Pilot Officer, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on air operations. Mi - A. R. Blunden. Box 178. Greymouth (f). FAUSETT, Kenneth G., Sergeant, R.N.Z.A.F.. missing on air operations. Mrs G. E. Fausett 5 Wells Rd., Ponsonby (m). MARQUET. Raymond T., Sergeant, R.N.Z. A.F.. missing on air operations. Mrs D. Marquet, 152 Bealey Ave., Christchurch (m). NEILL. Berry A.. Sergeant, R.N.Z.A.F., kill-, ed in aircraft accident. Mr M. Neill, Bridge St., Port Ahuriri (ml. PATERSON, William J., Sergeant. R.N.Z. A.F.. missing on air operations. Mrs V. D. Paterson Box 90, Takapau (m). REAY. Wilfred G„ Sergeant, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on air operations. Mrs W. G. Reay, R.D., Richmond (m). SHEPHERD. lan J., Pilot Officer, R.N.Z.A.F., wounded, not seriously, on air operations. Mrs I. J. Shepherd, 31 Ashbury Ave., Timaru (w). SMITH. Edmund P.. Pilot Officer R.N.Z.A.F., killed in action. Mrs E. P. Smith, Avondale Rd., Avondale (w). THOMAS, Godfrey E. J., Flight Sergeant, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on air operations. Mr G. L. Thomas, 5 Lett St., Lansdowne, Masterton if). WARNOCK. John M., Pilot Officer, R.N.Z. A.F.. killed in aircraft accident. Mrs A. J. Warnock, Vogel St.. Woodville (ml. Reclassifications. COTTON, Robert G„ L/Ac., R.N.Z.A.F., previously reported seriously injured, now removed from seriously injured list, Waripori. GIBSON, John C. McK„ Sergeant, R.N.Z. A.F., previously reported missing believed killed, death now officially presumed as in November; Otaki. McCRACKEN, Roderick U„ Pilot Officer, R.N.Z.A.F.. previously reported missing, believed killed, death now officially presumed as in August; Rangiora. MACDONALD, Hugh McL., Sergeant R.N.Z. A.F., previously reported missing, believed killed, death now officially presumed as in September; Auckland. MILNER. William H. J.. Sergeant, R.N.Z. - A.F., previously reported missing, believed killed, death now officially presumed as in December; Sydney. BRADLEY, Selwyn F. L/Ac„ R.N.Z.A.F., killed in aircraft accident. Mrs J. M. Bradley, Mayfair Annexe, Auckland (m).