FATAL AIR CRASH

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21194, 17 August 1940, Page 9

FATAL AIR CRASH

SERGT.-OBSERVER D. O. REWA EDUCATION IN HAMILTON ißy Telegraph.—special to Times) AUCKLAND, Saturday Cabled advice of the death of their only son, Sergeant-Observer Douglas Oswald Rewa, aged 19, as the result of a crash during a training flight in England on August 13, has been received by Mr and Mrs W. S. Rewa, of Mount Eden. SergeantObserver Rewa was an old boy of the Auckland Grammar School and received his primary education in Hamilton. After leaving school he joined the staff of the Post and Telegraph Department in Auckland. He entered the Royal New Zealand Air Force last December and was trained at Weraroa and Ohakea. He left for England in May. TWO HASTINGS PILOTS (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) HASTINGS, Friday Two Hastings pilots in the Royal Air Force have been killed in an air accident in England, according to advice received by their parents. They are Airman Pilot-Sergeant Henry Miller, son of Mr and Mrs W. McNair Miller, Nelson Street, Hastings, and Pilot-Officer Herbert Gregory Ballantyne, son of Mrs Ballantyne, St. Aubyn Street, Hastings.

IN GERMAN PRISON CAMP (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Saturday Confirmation of the internment in a German prison camp known as Dulag Luft of a young New Zealand member of the Royal Air Force, Pilot-Officer Henry Macale Murray, aged 20, has been received from the Air Ministry by his brother, Mr F. M. Murray, of Grafton Bridge Flats, Auckland. His sister, Mrs Buckeridge, wife of Flight-Lieu-tenant J. M. Buckeridge, actingController of Civil Aviation, Wellington, has also been advised.