AIR CASUALTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1943, Page 4

AIR CASUALTIES

NEW ZEALANDERS OVERSEAS DEATHS AND INJURIES. MASTERTON MAN POSTED MISSING. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) e WELLINGTON, This Day. The following air casualties were reported today, all of the R.N.Z.A.i 1 ., and with the rank of sergeant unless otherwise stated: — Killed on Active Service. Clift, Pilot Officer, Kenneth; father, Mr R. Clift, Sydney. Injured on Active Service. Blair, Rowan Alexander; father, C? Blair, Pukekohe. Missing on Air Operations. Clarke, Warrant Officer, Richard James; father, Mr S. Clarke, Masterton. Hall, Flying Officer, Douglas Ross; father, Mr H. Hall, Auckland. Sykes, lan Murray; father, Mr G. M. Sykes, New Plymouth. Interned. Depree, Alfred Brooker; father, Mr A. C. Depree, Invercargill. Confirmed Prisoner of War. King, Leslie Leighton; father, Mr A. W. King, Auroa. Previously Reported Missing, Death Now Officially Presumed. Brough, Pilot Officer, Valentine George, of Nelson. Brown, Pilot Officer, Alan Stewart, of Auckland.

Cunningham, Pilot Officer, Alan Henry, of Christchurch , Duff, Pilot Officer, Peter Stanley, D.F.C., of Hamilton. Keeling, David North, of Wellington. Tanner, John Harold, of Wellington.

Previously Reported Missing, Now Reclassified Missing, Believed Killed.

Denham, Maurice Thorpe, of Welling ton.

Previously Reclassified Missing, Believed Killed; Death New Officially Presumed.

Ducker, Pilot Officer, Darcy Clive Melville, of Portland. Garland, John Francis, of Wellington. Hugill, Howard James, of Huapai. McKillop, Robert Hugh, of Auckland.

Previously on the Dangerously 111 List, New Reported Died.

Kaspar, Leading Aircraftman, Reuben Henry, of Auckland.

Removed from Seriously 111 List.

Verran, Flight Lieutenant, James Victor, D.F.C., R.A.F, of Taumarunui