AIR FORCE AWARDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1942, Page 2

AIR FORCE AWARDS

NEW ZEALANDERS OVERSEAS. LIST OF ELEVEN NAMES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Official advice has been received by Air Headquarters, Wellington, that a further 11 awards have been made to New Zealand air personnel serving overseas. These are:— Distinguished Service Order. Wing Commander Minden Vaughan Blake, D.F.C., R.A.F. (Christchurch). Distinguished Flying Crosses. Acting Flight Lieutenant Valentine Allport, R.N.Z.A.F. (mother, Mrs A. Allport, 3 Richmond Avenue, Nelson). Pilot Officer John Edwin Casey, R.N.Z. A F (mother, Mrs J. E. Casey, Apou Road, French Bay. Auckland,. Pilot Officer Casey lost his life in an aircraft accident on June 28. 1942. , ', Pilot Officer Alfred William Gordon Cochrane, R.N.Z.A.F. (father, Mr W. M. Cochrane, Rawene). Acting Flying Officer George Maxwell Davies, R.N.Z.A.F. (father, Mr S. W. Davies, Box 39(1. Dunedin). Pilot Officer Peter Stanley Duff, R.N.Z. A.F.' (father, Mr A. S. Duff, Mahoe Street, Hamilton). Acting Flying Officer David Stewart Gibb, R.N.Z.A.F. (mother, Mrs A. A. Gibb, Craig Knock; Motunau). Squadron Leader Raymond John Newton, R.N.Z.A.F. (father, Mr J. K. Newton, 30 Ryan Street, Linwood, Christchurch). Acting Flight Lieutenant Robert Lawrence Spurdie. R.N.Z.A.F. (mother, Mrs F. M. Spurdie, 9 Keith Street, Wanganui). Acting Squadron Leader Keith Frederick Thiele, R.N.Z.A.F. (father, Mr F. G. Thiele, 159 King Street, Sydenham). Distinguished Flying Medal. Sergeant Kenneth Oscar Law, R.N.Z.A.F. (father, Mr A. J. Law, Bank of New South Wales, Cambridge). .