FAMOUS AIRMAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1943, Page 4

FAMOUS AIRMAN

WING COMMANDER CLOUSTON' WINS D.F.C. FINE LEADERSHIP & COURAGE SHOWN IN NUMBER OF. MISSIONS (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. With a name already famous for a series of spectacular recordbreaking flights in the years before the war, one of New Zealand’s foremost pilots, Wing Commander A. E. Clouston, A.F.C. and Bar, of Nelson, joins the growing list of New Zealand air personnel serving overseas who have won the D.F.C. The award of this ’decoration to Wing Commander Clouston was announced today by the Air Department at Wellington. The citation says: “Wing Commander Clouston takes a full share in the operational flying of his unit. He has shown fine leadership and courage on a number of missions. In the course of an anti-submarine patrol last July he sighted a U-boat some miles away. Keeping a rain squall between him and his quarry, he approached to the attack. The submarine sighted his aircraft and opened fire on it. Wing Commander Clouston delivered an effective attack, dropping two sticks of bombs. The U-boat was seen to roll on its side. It then dived at a very steep angle. During this most determined attack Wing Commander Clouston' displayed great coolness and gallantry.” His father, Mr R. W. Clouston, lives in Upper Moutere, Nelson Province.