AIR CASUALTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1943, Page 4

AIR CASUALTIES

LATEST OFFICIAL LIST (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The following air casualties were reported today. All are R.N.Z.A.F. members of the rank of sergeant unless otherwise stated: — Killed on Active Service BRADFORD, Flight Sergeant Edward Albert John. Father, Mr J. W. Bradford, Ormondville. GRIFFITHS. Flight Sergeant Rex Vernon. Mother, Mrs O. M. Griffiths, Auckland. MORSE, Flying Officer Colin Rutherford. Father, Mr P. Morse, Hamner Springs. PRICE, Flight Sergeant John Sherlock. Father, Mr F. A. Price, Invercargill. Missing on Air Operations BENNETT, Temporary Flight Sergeant ■Arthur Godfrey. Father, Mr J. A. Bennett, Wellington. CAVE, Flight Sergeant William John. Father, Mr W. A. A. Cave. Masterton. DAMPIER-CROSSLEY. Acting Flight Lieutenant Edward, D.F.C., R.A.A.F. Father, Mr H. M. Dampier-Crossley, Waiau. FROST, Temporary Flight Sergeant Laurence James. Mother, Mrs G. Frost, Auckland. HARRIS, Flight Sergeant Albert Douglas. Father, Mr F. J. Harris, Huntly. LEWIS, Flight Sergeaiit Aubrey Lewin. Father, Mr L. Lewis, Rotorua. MARINOVICH, Flying Officer Ivan. Father, Mr L. Marinovich, Gratia. ROSE, Flight Sergeant Alistair Frederick. Father, Mr A. F. Rose, Wanganui. SALTER. Flying Officer Edward William Huia. Sister, Mrs F. M. Burgess. Manurewa. SHEPHERD, Warrant. Officer Henry Scoresby. Mother, Mrs F. H. Tarrant, Auckland. SOPER, Temporary Sergeant Terence John. Mother, Mrs A. L. Soper, Takaka. TRIGG, Pilot Officer Lloyd Allan, D.F.C. Wife, Mrs N. B. Trigg, Palmerston North. Seriously 111 HEILBRON, ACI. Leonard.. Clifford. Mother, Mrs T. J. Fenton, Auckland. THOMAS, ACI, Archie Leonard. Mother, Mrs D. Thomas, Auckland. Seriously Injured on Active Service WILLIAMSON, Flight Sergeant Ivan John. Wife, Mrs I. J. Williamson. Wellington. Previously Reported Missing—Death Now Officially Presumed AMOS, Flight Sergeant Orison Edwin, Hamilton. BRIDGMAN. Pilot Officer Arthur Mervyn, Nelson. GORDON, James Douglas, Auckland. HARRIS, Harold Richard, Wellington. JACKSON, Flying Officer Edward Norman, Invercargill. Previously Reclassified Missing, Believed Killed—Death Now Officially Presumed. ATKINSON, Dqnald Keith. Rotorua. BEER, Norman Clive, Invercargill. GOW, Flight Sergeant John Graham, Winton. Flying Officer Stanley Bailey, Christchurch. Previously Reported Missing, Now Confirmed Prisoner of War BAKER, Flight Sergeant Darcy Walker, Auckland. BUCHANAN, Douglas Kenneth, Takapuna. COOKSLEY, Flight Sergeant Bernard Laurence, Opiki. IRVINE. Pilot Officer Charles Alexander,' Waiouru. ROBINSON, Flight Sergeant Alan James, Matamata. RUSBATCH, Gwyn, Hastings. Previously Reported Missing—Nov/ Reclassified to Missing, Believed Killed. CORLETT, Geoffrey Scott, England. HENDERSON, Flight Sergeant Gordon, Auckland. McKAY, Flight Sergeant Frank Gordon, Christchurch. McNAREY, Flight Lieutenant David lan Dunedin. Previously Reported Missing, Now Reported Safe DICKSON, Pilot Officer George Russell, Riverton.