SQUADRON - LEADER A. A. N. BRECKON, D.F.C. (right), returned to New Zealand from England at the end of June of this year. Elder son of a well known Auckland photographer, he lived in Northcote and went to the Mount Albert Grammar School. A younger brother is also in the Royal, Air Force. Squadron-Leader Breckon was one of the first New Zealanders to win the Distinguished Flying Cross, this being awarded shortly after his record long-distance flight to Narvik. He was the first R.A.F. flyer to transfer to the R.N.Z.A.F. just prior to the outbreak of war to fly Wellington aircraft out to New Zealand, and among his later activities were leaflet and bombing raids over Germany. He was married in England to Miss Dana E. Waugh, otf Cumberland.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 117, 19 September 1941, Page 6
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128SQUADRON - LEADER A. A. N. BRECKON, D.F.C. (right), returned to New Zealand from England at the end of June of this year. Elder son of a well known Auckland photographer, he lived in Northcote and went to the Mount Albert Grammar School. A younger brother is also in the Royal, Air Force. Squadron-Leader Breckon was one of the first New Zealanders to win the Distinguished Flying Cross, this being awarded shortly after his record long-distance flight to Narvik. He was the first R.A.F. flyer to transfer to the R.N.Z.A.F. just prior to the outbreak of war to fly Wellington aircraft out to New Zealand, and among his later activities were leaflet and bombing raids over Germany. He was married in England to Miss Dana E. Waugh, otf Cumberland. New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 117, 19 September 1941, Page 6
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