R.A.F. PILOT’S SUCCESS
ACTING SQUADRON LEADER J. R. BLOXAM. WINNER OF “AGE” SCHOLARSHIP. Acting Squadron Leader John Roby Bloxam, Avho is serving Avith the R.A.F. and has just been awarded the D.F.C., is a son of Mr and Mrs H. B. Bloxam, of Featherston. He was the first winner of the “Age” Flying Scholarship, conducted by the Wairarapa and Ruahine Aero Club in 1937. In winning the scholarship he put up a most creditable performance and proved a very apt pupil. He was exceptionally keenly interested in flying, and left NeAV Zealand in September, 1938, to take up a short service commission -with the R.A.F. On the outbreak of war he was posted to a squadron carrying out reconnaissance work over the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean and protective service for shipping coming to and leaving Great Britain. Fourteen months ago he Avas sent to Malta and has been stationed there ever since. He is only about 24 years of age and his achievement in attaining the rank of acting sauadron leader is a notable one.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1942, Page 2
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177R.A.F. PILOT’S SUCCESS Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1942, Page 2
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