KILLED AT MALTA
PILOT OFFICER IVAN PALMER. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) SYDNEY, January 14. Pilot Officer Ivan Palmer, R.A.A.F., has been reported killed in air operations at Malta. Born at Levuka, Fiji, Pilot Officer Palmer was educated at King’s College, Auckland, and joined the R.A.A.F. early in 1940. In his first fortnight in the Middle East he shot down three enemy planes. Pilot Officer Palmer began his journalistic career in Auckland, later being on the editorial staffs of a Singapore paper and subsequently the “Sun,” Sydney. He cruised half-way round the world with the American Dwight Long, in his ketch, Idle Hour. Pilot Officer Palmer, who was 32, leaves a widow and one child.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1943, Page 2
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