AWARDED D.F.C.
TWO NEW ZEALANDERS NOTABLE RECONNAISSANCE COURAGE AS LEADER (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Thursday Particulars regarding awards to New Zealand airmen are released by the Director of Publicity. Two more New Zealanders have been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, according to information received at Air Headquarters, Wellington, this morning. They are:— Acting Squadron-Leader Aubrey Arthur Ninnis Breekon. Acting Flight-Lieutenant Francis Edwin Eustace.
Acting Squadron-Leader Breekon comes from Northcote, Auckland, and is aged 26. According to the official citation, “he participated in 21 major bombing attacks on Germany, Holland, Belgium and France. He made a reconnaissance flight north of Narvik of a duration of 14£ hours, the longest of the first 12 months of the war, undeterred by enemy action and bad weather. He is a reliable and persistent longdistance pilot and a cool, courageous and determined leader.”
Acting Squadron-Leader Breekon was a newspaper photographer in Auckland before he was granted a short service commission with the Royal Air Force. Acting Flight-Lieutenant Eustace, who is 24, was born in Nelson and educated at the Taumarunui District High School and Nelson College. He was accepted for a short service commission with the Royal Air Force in 1937.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21217, 13 September 1940, Page 7
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196AWARDED D.F.C. Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21217, 13 September 1940, Page 7
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