AIR CASUALTIES
LIST OF SEVEN j WING-COMMANDER MISSING NUMBER BELIEVED KILLED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Monday The following Air Force casualties are officially announced:— Sergeant Harry Chapman Downs R.N.Z.A.F., seriously injured in a flying accident. His mother is Mrs A. E. Downs, 14 Calcutta Street, Khandallah, Wellington. Wing-Commander Leslie Clive Bennett, missing in air operations. His wife is Mrs J. Bennett. Chichester, England, and his father Mr F. H. Bennett, Harrow England. Wing-Commander Bennett was born in Ngaroto, New Zealand. Flying-Officer William Harcourt Coleman, R.N.Z.A.F., missing, believed killed in operations. His mother is Mrs A. Walton, 12 Derby Street, Devonport, Auckland. Pilot-Officer David Baynton Starky, missing as the result of an aircraft accident. His father is Mr F. B. Starky, Toa Toa, Bay of Plenty. Sergeant W. D. F. Annan, reported missing, believed killed. His father is Mr F. J. A. Annan, 58 Dickens Street, Napier. Pilot-Officer Frank Twain Poole, missing, believed killed. His father is Mr C. H. Poole, 373 Herbert Street, Invercargill. Pilot-Officer Rupert Edward Short, missing on air operations. His father is Mr T. E. Short, 142 Campbell Road, Green Lane. Auckland. PILOT’S CAREER TO HAVE FLOWN BOMBER (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Monday Flying-Officer William Harcourt Coleman, at the age of 15, was the youngest active member of the Christchurch Gliding Club. Later he was trained at the Auckland Aero Club and went to England in 1937, before the Government training scheme was in operation, and joined the Royal Air Force. He was to have come to New Zealand last year with the flight of Wellington bombers. Since the outbreak of war he had commanded a Wellington bomber and had made many flights over Germany and Norway.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21177, 29 July 1940, Page 8
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280AIR CASUALTIES Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21177, 29 July 1940, Page 8
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