NEW ZEALAND OFFICERS
TWO NOW COMMANDING ■ SUBMARINES.
(Special P.A. Correspondent.)
LONDON, June 19.
The distinction of being the first member of the R.N.Z.N.V.R. to command a submarine is held by Lieutenant E. P. Thode, of Mount Eden. He recently passed top of a course for submarine commanders, and now has his own command. Lieutenant Thode, who was a Mount Albert Grammar School boy and a member of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, worked his way to England as a deck bpy to join the R.N.V.R. He was commissioned at H.M.S. King Alfred and was then posted third in command of a corvette, serving for six months in the northwestern approaches. He was next navigator in a submarine which scored a number of successes in the Mediterranean, sinking one large and one medium supply ship, also a troop ship in the lonian Sea.
The only other New Zealander at present commanding a submarine is Lieutenant L.' E. Herrick, R.N., of Hawke’s Bay.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1943, Page 2
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