NAVAL CASUALTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1943, Page 4

NAVAL CASUALTIES

NEW ZEALANDERS OVERSEAS FOUR DEATHS RECORDED. THREE RESULT OF ACCIDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The following naval casualties were announced today:— Killed as Result of Aircraft Accident. HAWKEN. Temporary Lieutenant Harold Tolmie; father, Mr A. T. Hawken, Wellington. LUNN, Temporary Sub-Lieutenant Douglas Vernon; father, Mr V. H. Lunn, New Plymouth. Died from Illness. WEST, Chief Engineroom Artificer Albert Ernest; wife, Mrs A. E. West, Auckland. Missing, Presumed Killed, as Result of Aircraft Accident. BROWN, Temporary Acting Sub-Lieu-tenant John Atkinson; father, Mr G. Brown, Carterton.

SUB.=LIEUT. J. A. BROWN POWER BOARD EXPRESSES SYMPATHY. SON OF SECRETARY-MANAGER. Reference to the death while serving with the Fleet Air Arm of Sub-Lieu-tenant Jack A. Brown, son of the Sec-retary-Manager, Mr G. Brown, was made at today’s meeting in Carterton of the Wairarapa Electric Power Board. Sub-Lieut. Brown was well known in Rugby circles. He played for the Carterton senior team, and represented Wairarapa on many occasions, being a clever back.

The chairman, Mr A. C. Pearce, asked Mr and Mrs Brown and family to accept the board's sincere sympathy in the loss of their youngest son. Mr Pearce said he had had the pleasure of knowing Sub-Lieutenant Brown. He had gone to school in Carterton and had attended the Wairarapa High School, later taking up school teaching, in which profession he would have gene far. The late Sub-Lieutenant Brown was of outstanding ability and had high ideals. In sport he had excelled himself and his death was a great loss.

The board stood in silence for a few moments as a mark of respect.