AWARDS TO AIRMEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1943, Page 2

AWARDS TO AIRMEN

LATEST LIST OF RECIPIENTS SERVICE OVERSEAS. DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSSES AND MEDALS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Thirteen Distinguished Flying Crosses and four Distinguished Flying Medals make up the latest list of awards to members of the R.N.Z.A.F. overseas, official notification of which has been received by the Air Department, Wellington. One D.F.C. is a posthumous award, and the winner of another is listed as missing on operations. The recipients are: — i Distinguished Flying Cross. —ActingFlight Lieutenant Edward McLeod Gray (missing); Acting-Flight Lieutenant Leo George Trott, Otorohanga; Act-ing-Flight Lieutenant James Gillespie Neilson, Feilding; Flying Officer William John Robert Scollay, Wellington; Flying Officei’ James Cowan (posthumous award), Hastings; Flying Officer Dugald Louis Popplewell, Dunedin; Flying Officer Noel Ainsley Cresswell, Napier; Flying Officer Irvine Watt Ren-, ner, Gisborne; Pilot Officer William! John Muir Low Barclay, D.F.M., Dunedin; Pilot Officer Harry O’Brien Liver, Lower Hutt; Pilot Officer Donald Winter Thomson, Te Kuiti; Pilot Officer Harold Reginald Hamerton, Pa tea; Pilot Officer John Henry Low, Ocean Beach, Southland.

Distinguished Flying Medal. —Pilot Officer ' (formerly sergeant) Mikaere Manawaiti, Taumaruui; Flight Sergeant Arthur Raymond Rowsell, Qkaihau; Sergeant Robert James Carter, Taumarunui; Sergeant John Henry McDonald, Pukerau.