AIR CASUALTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1943, Page 4

AIR CASUALTIES

NEW ZEALANDERS OVERSEAS DEATHS REPORTED OR CONFIRMED LATEST LIST OF NAMES (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The following R.N.Z.A.F. personnel were mentioned in a casualty list issued today, flight-sergeants unless otherwise stated: Killed on Active Service MCCARTHY, Gordon Graham; mother, Mrs C. McCarthy, Waipukurau. RIDLAND, Mitchell; mother, Mrs M. A. Ridland, Hokitika. Killed in Aircraft Accident HANCOCK, Flying Officer, Albert Keith; father, Mr S. A. Hancock, of Hamilton. Previously Reported Missing, Death Now Officially Presumed COLLINS, Sergeant, Owen Eastwood, of Tongaporutu. HOUGH, Pilot Officer, William John, of Te Kopuru. JOHNSON, Flying Officer lan Sinclair, of Wellington. ORGAN, George Geoffrey, of Lower Hutt. Previously Reclassified Missing, Believed Killed, Death Now Officially Presumed. GRAINGER, Pilot Officer James Kennedy, of Napier. GROVES, Pilot Officer, Kelvin Havelock Green, of Masterton. MILLIKEN, Acting Flight Lieutenant, Robert Eric, of Springfield. PARKINSON, Pilot Officer Gerald Andrew, of Whatatutu. POTTS, Flight Lieutenant James Wallace, of Auckland. Previously Reported Missing, Now Reclassified Missing, Believed Killed. HENDRY, John Lawrence, of Auckland. PREBBLE, Flying Officer lan Douglas, of Waverley. SHOGREN, Sergeant Malcolm Edward John, of Auckland. Previously Reported Missing, Now Confirmed Prisoner of War McLEAN, Flying Officer Campbell > Kaid, of Auckland. NELSON, John Karl, of Wanganui. ROWLAND, Pilot Officer Claude, of Wellington. WALKER, Isaac, of Auckland.