CASUALTY LIST

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21197, 21 August 1940, Page 8

CASUALTY LIST

DOMINION FLIERS THREE PILOTS KILLED ONE MISSING, ONE INJURED (By Telegraph.—rress Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday The following Air Force casualties were officially announced today:— Pilot-Officer Ernest lan Parsons, D. —Missing as a result of air operations. His mother is Mrs W. H. Parsons, of Timaru. Pilot-Officer Herbert Gregory Ballantyne.—Killed as the result of an aircraft accident. His mother is Mrs E. G. Ballantyne, of Hastings. Pilot-Officer Cecil Henry Hight.— Killed as the result of air operations. His father is Mr N. E. Hight, of Stratford. Pilot-Officer Athol Gordon McIntyre. —lnjured as the result of air operations. His father is Mr J. McIntyre, of Palmerston North. PilotOfficer Mclntyre was also injured in June. Pilot-Officer John Oscar Lloyd Stephenson. —Killed as the result of an air accident. His mother is Mrs G. H. Stephenson, of New Plymouth. Pilot-Officer Stephenson was reported dangerously ill as the result of an accident last November. BRILLIANT FLYER SQUADRON-LEADER KILLED . (By Telegraph.—Press Association BLENHEIM, Wednesday News has been received that Squadron-Leader Terence Gunion Lovell-Gregg, youngest son of Mrs and the late Dr. Lovell-Gregg, of Picton, has been killed in action. He was 26 years of age and qualified as a pilot nine years ago with the Marlborough Aero Club. He proceeded to England and received a commission with the Royal Air Force. He was then the young- ! est pilot in Australasia. He was promoted flight lieutenant when 21 and to squadron-leader at the end of last yeaf. He was educated at Nelson College, where he had a brilliant scholastic career. He intended entering the Otago University to study for the medical profession but was held back owing to his youth and took up flying in the meantime. FLYING ACCIDENT FLEET AIR ARM TRAINEE (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday Cabled advice that their son, Acting Leading Aircraftsman Edward Culley, has been killed on war service as the result of a flying accident at Lee-on-Solent, has been received | by Mr and Mrs* E. Culley, of Lower j Hutt. | Aircraftsman Culley, who was 18 years of age, left for England for : service with the Fleet Air Arm on ! November 16 last year. He was i educated at Scots College and Wel- | lington College. He was particularly | prominent in swimming and Rugby football circles, being a member of the Wellington College first fifteen for two seasons.