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Badcock,
John
Son of John and Claudia Colston Badcock, of Mataura, Southland, New Zealand.
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1920 ?
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04.06.1943
[age 23]
[Medjez-el-Bab War Cemetery, Tunisia, 7.A.11]
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04.06.1943
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152
Squadron RAF (had 437 flying hours)
[accidental death on active service; killed
in a motor vehicle accident when the light truck he was travelling in hit a
car that had pulled out of the convoy and then collided with an 8th Army
vehicle; Badcock and two other pilots of 152 Squadron were killed]
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Baker,
Colin Roy
Son of Stanley Roy and Kathlyn Ada Baker, of Palmerston North, Wellington, New Zealand.
From Auckland.
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1923 ?
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16.04.1945
(KIA) [age 22]
[Oxford (Botley) Cemtery, plot H/1, grave 199]
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DFC
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06.06.1944
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pilot, 75
(RNZAF) Squadron RAF
[at 13.03.1944 at 23.00 hrs taken off from
Mepal in his Stirling III (EF236 AA-J) for a sea/coastal minlelaying
operation off Brest; outbound, an aileron control rod broke and the crew made
an emergency landing at Castle Combe airfield, Wiltshire, touching down on the
short runway; unable to stop in the distance available, the Stirling ended up
in the overshoot area with its undercarriage broken; later, three of the five
mines exploded]
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16.04.1945
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pilot
instructor, 11 Operational Training Unit RAF
[taken of at 00.30 hrs from Oakley for a
training in his Wellington X (LP 651) which collided with another in the
funnels area at 00.38 hrs, coming down about 2 miles NNE of the airfield and
in the general direction of Borstall; twelve airmen died in the incident,
representing the OTU's heaviest loss of life in a single accident]
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Baker,
Reginald William
"Reg"
Son of John Gerald Charles Baker, and Mina Margaret Dobbie, of Dunedin, Otago,
New Zealand.
Engaged (05.1944) Janet Burley, serving in the FANY (First Air Nursing
Yeomanry), of Sydney, NSW, Australia, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs Fred R.
Burley, of Denham Mount, Buckinghamshire. |
02.03.1915
Dunedin, New Zealand
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22.02.1945
(KIA) [age 29]
[Becklingen War Cemetery, 13.F.8] |
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P/O |
08.02.1941 [NZ
401748] |
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(A) W/Cdr. |
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DFC |
29.09.1942 |
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MID |
01.01.1945 |
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* This officer is an excellent flight commander
whose fine fighting qualities have fostered a high standard of morale
amongst his fellow pilots. He has completed numerous sorties over enemy
occupied territory.
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Education: Otago BHS, Dunedin; John McGlashan Coll
(1st XV/XI at JMC), Dunedin; Otago University (Shooting & Rowing Teams).
Occupation: analytical chemist - W Gregg & Co, Dunedin.
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served New
Zealand Army - Territorial Force for one year |
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03.1939 |
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RNZAF Civil
Reserve Pilot/Otago AC |
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02.07.1940 |
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mobilized
RNZAF Levin/GTS as AP under training |
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29.07.1940 |
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No. 1
Elementary Flying Training School [crashed on approach during dual instruction
(uninj) 15 .10.1940] |
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26.10.1940 |
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No. 1
Flying Training School (pilot badge with effect of 16.01.1941) |
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08.02.1941 |
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commissioned, RNZAF |
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27.02.1941 |
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embarked
"Awatea" for the UK & attached to RAF (via Canada 16 Mar-25 Apr 41 & attached
while there to 2ANS 10-? Apr) |
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10.05.1941 |
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No. 1 Depot |
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26.05.1941 |
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53
Operational Training Unit (flying Spitfire) |
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01.07.1941 |
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61
Operational Training Unit (flying Spitfire) |
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07.07.1941 |
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485
Squadron RNZAF (flying Spitfire - 186 operations) (RAF Hospital Halton
13-30.09.1941, Squadron Commanding Officer from 20.03.1943)
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30.06.1943 |
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No. 11
Group RAF (3 operations - for tactics duties) (attached RAF War Staff College
for course 06.12.1943-05.03.1944) |
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11.11.1944 |
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2
Geographically Separated Unit (flying Mosquito) |
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14.01.1945 |
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22.02.1945 |
Commanding
Officer, 487 Squadron RNZAF (flying Mosquito - 6 operations)
[Piloted Mosquito PZ395 [EG-E] that had taken
off at 11:00 hrs from Rosières-en-Senterre (France) for Operation Clarion. The
aim of the operation, in which 215 planes were involved, was to range over large
areas of Germany attacking transport & communications. The aircraft carried out
an armed reconnaissance over the Hamburg-Bremen -coast area and was one of two
Mosquitoes shot down NW of Hamburg, crashing near Bevern, 7 kms East of Elmshorn
at 13:15 hrs. Baker had flown 1004 hrs and 194 missions.] |
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Breed,
Mervyn Ryburn
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(WS) F/Lt.
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18.10.1947,
seniority 07.04.1945 [59651]
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F/Lt.
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18.10.1947,
seniority 01.09.1945
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F/Lt. RNZAF
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? [NZ/133718]
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DFC
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Cmdn
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10.06.1961
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HM's birthday 61
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(1942)
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70 Squadron
RAF
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10.02.1944
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105
Squadron RAF
[his Mosquito Mk. IV [DZ558 HS-T] took off
from Marham at 0151 hrs 10.02.1944 and crashed at Laar (Limburg) 3 km N of
Weert, Holland; initially evaded capture]
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28.02.1944
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1945
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POW in
German captivity (Stalag L1)
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18.10.1947
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26.05.1952
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extended
service commission, RAF (General Duties Branch)
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26.05.1952
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RNZAF
Reserve
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Caldwell,
Walter Alexander
Son of Walter Alexander Caldwell and Lorna Irene Caldwell, of St. Heliers, Auckland, New Zealand. |
1923 ?
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25.05.1942
(KIA) [age 19]
[Malta Memorial, panel 5. column 1] |
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25.05.1942 |
601 Squadron
RAuxAF
[lost in Spitfire BR354, having 295 flying
hours] |
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Chambers,
Leonard
"Len"
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18.02.1919
Karramea, NZ
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1982
(or 1985?)
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P/O
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? [NZ/403748]
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F/O
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? (reld 10.02.1945)
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DFC
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28.05.1943
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attack of Moehne, Eder and
Sorpe dams in Germany 16.05.43
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09.1940
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joined RNZAF
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75 (New Zealand) Squadron RAF (flew 31
operations)
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No. 26 Operational Training Unit
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07.04.1943
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Wireless
Operator, 617 ('Dambusters') Squadron RAF
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03.11.1944
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returned to New Zealand
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Carpenter.
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Frewer,
Alan Vernon
Son of Ernest Frewer (1882?-1927), and
Alexandra Daisy Lund. (1890-1938).
Married Fey ...; two sons. |
02.08.1921
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10.01.2017
Burwood Hospital, Burwood, Christchurch, New Zealand |
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Wt.Offr. |
? [NZ/413503] |
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P/O |
01.06.1944 |
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F/O
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01.12.1944 |
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17.11.1941 |
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embarked
for UK |
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61
Operational Training Unit RAF [30.07.1942
landed Spitfire P7289 in a field two miles south of Rednal airfield, due to lack
of petrol (faulty petrol gauge)] |
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232
Squadron RAF (North Africa) |
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11.10.1945 |
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transferred to Reserve of Air Force Officers, Class A, Section I |
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Herrick,
Dennis Trevelyan [Dalrymple]
One of six sons & two daughters
* of
Edward Jasper Herrick, and Ethne Rose Herrick.
Brother of:
F/O B.H. Herrick, RAF
Sq.Ldr. M.J. Herrick, RAF
Cdr. L.E. Herrick, RN
Capt. T.D. Herrick, RN
Husband of Mary Rowena Herrick (née Birch), of Island Bay, Wellington, New Zealand;
one son.
* one of which married Gen. Sir Nigel Poett
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1912
Hastings, New Zealand
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30.06.1941
[age 29]
[Lorient (Kerentrech) Communal Cemetery, 62.A.7]
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GM
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* When training at Taieri (near Dunedin) when he and another airman extricated a pilot from an aircraft
on fire although there was a live bomb in the burning wreckage.
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Education: Wanganui Collegiate School
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26.06.1941
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pilot, 53
Squadron RAF (Coastal Command)
[taken off from St Eval at 11.10 hrs, he
was brought down into the sea flying a Blenheim IV [V6087 PZ-O] on an
anti-shipping strike off Brest; wounded & taken prisoner, but died a few
days later in the German Naval Hospital at Lorient]
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Jackson,
George Rowan
Son of George Jackson and of Edith Myrtle Jackson (née Porter), of Auckland
City, New Zealand.
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28.01.1921
Auckland, NZ
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29.03.1943
(KIA) [age 22]
[Morpeth (Saints Mary and James) Churchyard, Northumberland, AE.31]
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Acm.
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25.05.1941
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T/Sgt.
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08.11.1941
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P/O
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07.10.1942 [413076]
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25.05.1941
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enlisted,
RNZAF
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26.12.1941
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No. 3
Personnel Reception Centre RAF (Bournemouth, UK)
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10.01.1942
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No. 6
Flying Instructor School RAF (Staverton, UK)
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23.03.1942
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No. 3
(Pilots') Advanced Flying Unit RAF (South Cerney, UK)
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07.10.1942
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commissioned,
RNZAF
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09.06.1942
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29.03.1943
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staff
pilot, No. 4 Air Gunners' School RAF (Morpeth, UK)
[Took off from Morpeth, Northumberland on
board a Botha I (W5137) for gunnery detail. About 5 minutes after take off the
plane collided with another of the 4 Air Gunners' School's Botha Is (W5154) in
the circuit at 1200 feet 2 miles east of Morpeth at 1145 hours. At the time of
his death, Jackson had completed 487 flying hours, 217 of these solo on board
a Botha.]
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Pattison,
John
"Jack"
Son of Will and Margaret Pattison, of Chopwell, Co. Durham, England.
Husband of Rhoda Nellie Pattison, of Wellington City, New Zealand.
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1909
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03.08.1943
(KIA) [age 34]
[Hamburg Cemetery, Germany, 10A.K.8]
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03.08.1943
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air bomber,
76 Squadron RAF
[killed in action when his Halifax EB249 [MP-E]
took off at 23.30 hrs 02.08.1943 from Holme-on-Spalding Moor for an operation
against Hamburg and crashed at 02.15 hrs 03.08.1943 into the woods at
Hesedorf, 11 km SSE of Zeven]
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Pattison,
John Gordon
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27.01.1917
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11.09.2009 |
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Runciman,
Walter Jack
"Wally"
Son of William Jack Runciman (1873-1951), and Mary
Ann May Johnson (1875-).
Married Edwina Marguerite Golden; three children. |
22.10.1920
Auckland, NZ
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09.06.1956
Sydenham, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
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F/Sgt. |
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P/O |
04.04.1944 [NZ/403991] |
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(WS) F/Lt. |
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(A) Sq.Ldr. |
(01.1944) |
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Sq.Ldr. |
(06.1946) |
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F/O RAF |
13.08.1947,
seniority 04.04.1944 |
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(WS) F/Lt. RAF |
13.08.1947,
seniority 04.04.1945 |
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F/Lt. RAF |
14.08.1947,
seniority 03.10.1946 [59519] (retd 17.05.1952; own request; retaining
rank of Sq.Ldr.) |
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(T) Sq.Ldr. RAF |
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* Flt. Sgt. Runciman, as captain of a Stirling
aircraft, has consistently pressed home his attacks and has displayed great
still in flying his aircraft to base despite damage sustained. On the night
of April 23rd, 1942, whilst over Denmark, he was attacked by two enemy
fighters and his aircraft was so severely damaged that the crew prepared for
a crash landing. In, spite of a long sea crossing, Flt. Sgt. Runciman
decided to attempt to reach his base and did so successfully. By this time
he had practically no aileron control ordering his crew to abandon the
aircraft, he then landed it successfully. Flt. Sgt. Runciman has displayed
outstanding skill, courage and determination. |
Draughtsman with a firm of refrigerating engineers
at Auckland.
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27.10.1940 |
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joined RNZAF (Levin) |
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23.11.1940 |
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No. 2 Elementary Flying Training
School (New Plymouth) |
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18.01.1941 |
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No. 3 Flying Training School
(Ohakea) |
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29.04.1941 |
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embarked for passage to UK |
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20.05.1941 |
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No. 1 Manning Depot RAF |
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29.06.1941 |
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No. 3 Personnel Reception Centre RAF |
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03.07.1941 |
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20 Operational Training Unit RAF (Lossiemouth) |
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08.09.1941 |
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pilot, 7 Squadron RAF (Oakington) (DFM)
(5 operations as 2nd pilot, 27 operations as 1st pilot on Stirlings) # |
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01.08.1942 |
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19.03.1944 |
pilot instructor with a Conversion Unit RAF (flying
Stirlings) |
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03.1944 |
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03.1944 |
Mosquito training (Swanton Morley) |
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27.03.1944 |
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pilot, 487 (RNZAF)
Squadron (Hunsdon) (43 operations as 1st pilot on Mosquitoes) ## |
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13.08.1947 |
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19.08.1949 |
extended service
commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) |
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19.08.1948 |
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17.05.1952 |
permanent commission,
RAF (General Duties Branch) |
After a course at the Empire Test Pilots' School he went to
Boscombe Down as a test pilot. Senior test pilot, Short Brothers and Harland,
Belfast, 1952-1956. Involved with the test flying of the Short SA4 Sperrin
(first flight of the second prototype on 12.08.1952) and responsible for flight
testing the Seamew (first flight 23.08.1953) and demonstrated it at the
Farnborough Air Show in 1953 and 1954. Killed while giving a demonstration flight at an air display
at Sydenham, Belfast. His aircraft, a Short Seamew, crashed from about 100 feet
and exploded. He has about 3,000 flying hours on 60 types of aircraft. |
# 2nd Pilot 5
operations: 1. Stettin
19/9 2. Köln 27/9 3.
Stettin 29/9 4.
Brest 1/10 Engagement with Ju 88 at base Landed at Bourne
5. Köln
10/10 Caught in searchlights over target
1st Pilot
27 operations: 1.
Dutch Coast 5/11 2.
Berlin 7/11 Rear turret U/S 3.
Ostende 15/12 4. Ostende 16/12
5. Brest 18/12 Lead 1st formation of Stirlings 6.
Brest 2/1/1942 7.
Paris 3/3 19 bombs across target 8.
Essen 8/3 9.
Essen 9/3 10.
Köln 13/3 Intense flak from coast to target
11.
Essen 25/3 12.
Lübeck 28/3 Dive bombed from 9000ft Bombs on
target 13. Dortmund 14/4 Aircraft unmanoeuvrable over 1 rate
turn 14. Dortmund 15/4 Flak put out mid upper and rear
turrets 15. Hamburg 17/4
16. Kiel Bay 22/4 17.
Rostock 23/4 Damaged by 2 Ju 88s over Denmark.
Aileron control, stb outer and port gauges damaged, also flaps. Crew
baled out over base landed at Newmarket. 18.
Hamburg 3/5 19. Stuttgart 5/5
20. Sound (Denmark-Sweden) 4 mines dropped. 7/5
Admiralty confirmed ship sank 8/5 Only crew to lay mines in area.
21.
Wornemünde 8/5 About 40 S/L at target obliterated
ground. Hit by light flak. Shrapnel hit port engine, air intake,
super-charger 22. Köln 30/5 Huge fires burning
23. Essen 1/6 Heavily engaged by flak 2 injured. Port
2&3 tanks holed. Top turret U/S 24.
Emden 19/6 25.
Emden 22/6 Turned back 20 mins from target,
Navigator sick. 26. Bremen 25/6 10/10 cloud. Bombed on T.R. fix.
27.
Hamburg 28/7 Pin-point by flak. Intercepted by 3
FW190 and searchlight cone. Jettisoned north of target. Hit by light
flak over Kiel Canal.
## 1. Patrol Montdidier 11/4 2. Bombing Noball 106 (?) on
18/4 4x500lbs Underlined in red as with all operations, sorties and patrols.
3. Op Rly Abancourt 3/5/44 Angry angel 10 4. Op Rly Sergueux
Angry angel 7 4x500lbs 5. St. Andre G-H Op 1/6 Set u/s in target
area. 6. Road Patrol SE 5/6 Cherbourg Bombed Argentan 4x500lbs
7. Road Patrol SE 6/6 Bombed bridge and road junction N&ENE of St Lo
4x500lbs 8. Reserve Patrol 7/6 9. Rly patrol 8/6
Lessay St Lo area Bombed Rly St Lo 4x500lbs 10. Road Patrol 10/6
Domfont Laval, La Fleche wood, cannoned Le Mons. Bombed Rly Bridge S of Falaise
4x500lbs 11. Bombed Rly Station Chatellerault 11/6 4x500lbs
12. Road Patrol 17/6 Vire to Montain. Bombed bridge at Pont Le Rault
4x500lbs 13. Railway Patrol 20/6 Argentan to Versailles Bombed Rly
NE Droux 4x500lbs 14. Railway Patrol 23/6 Mountford, L'aigle,
Dreux, Eurewx 4x500lbs 15. G-Bombing 26/6 S of Caen 4x500lbs
16. Bombing 29/6 Villers Brocage area Panzer concentration 4x500lbs
17. Railway Patrol 3/7 Bombed at La Loupe and W of Dreux 4x500lbs
18. Railway Patrol 4/7 Bombed Rly bridge at Saumur D.H. 4x500lbs Cannoned
siding 10m E of Saumur 19. Railway Patrol 5/7 Bombed at Hyenville
4x500lbs Patrol to Villedieu 20. Railway Patrol 7/7 Cannoned train
at Laigne. Coaches and engine set alight. Cannoned another at Chateaux. Bombed
Rly bridge at Saumur 4x500lbs 21. Road Patrol 8/7 SW-S-SE of Caen.
Bombed Caen Falaise Rd 10m S of Caen. 4x500lbs Large fire started in road.
Cannoned road N of fire. 22. Railway Patrol 9/7 E of Paris Bombed
marshalling yards La Ferte. Two large explosions, ammunition exploding along the
yard. 4x500lbs 23. Bombed Gestapo Barracks 14/7 Bonneuil Matours
10m S of Chatellerault 4x500lbs (150 killed) 24. Road Patrol
18/7 S of battle area. Bombed cross-roads between Vire and St Lo. 2x500lbs
25. Railway Patrol 19/7 Orleans, Tours, Brugges. Bombed fire in wood and
Chateaudon Aerodrome 4x500lbs 26. Railway Patrol 24/7 Arras
to Do? and Vitry to Paris. Bombed fire in near La Ferte 4x500lbs 27.
Patrol behind battle front 26/7. Bombed cross-road and fire. ? bombs
28. Patrol behind battle front 27/7. Bombed Brecy on GBC .4x500lbs
29. Bombed Barracks 1/8 Poitiers 2x500 M.C. 2x500 Bombs on target. Low
level all way. 30. Railway Patrol Tour to Nevers. Cannoned and bombed
train at Selles. Results not observed. 4x500lbs + 13 other operations |
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White,
Charles Campbell
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Acm. |
18.10.1939 [NZ/A.391854 & 133431] |
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Sgt. |
27.07.1940 |
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P/O |
26.07.1941 |
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F/O |
26.07.1942 |
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F/Lt.
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01.05.1944 (commission terminated 10.07.1953) |
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18.10.1939 |
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enlisted
RNZAF |
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10.08.1940 |
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attached to RAF |
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72 Squadron |
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26.07.1941 |
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commissioned, RNZAF |
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26.07.1941 |
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258 Squadron
[The
squadron flew out to Singapore via Ceylon and he was shot down over Borneo.
Posted MIA but several weeks later turned up and made
his way back to NZ
arriving 26.05.1942.] |
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18 (RNZAF) Squadron (Pacific) |
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19 (RNZAF) Squadron (Pacific) |
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11.07.1945 |
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Reserve (Class A sec (1)) |
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18.10.1950 |
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10.07.1953 |
General Reserve |
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Williams,
Stamford Seaton
"Bill"
Son of James Gordon Williams and Ethel
Winifred Williams, of Orini, Waikato, New Zealand. |
04.02.1920
Wanganui, New Zealand
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22.12.1944
(KIA) [age 24]
[Losser Roman Catholic Churchyard, the Netherlands, south side of church] |
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P/O |
? [NZ/412297] |
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F/Lt.
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? |
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MID |
14.06.1945 |
? [posthumously] |
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Diesel engineer.
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04.1941 |
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joined
RNZAF |
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22.12.1944 |
pilot, 486 (RNZAF) Squadron RAF (credited with eight
victories)
[shot down in his Tempest V [EJ715] by flak
near Vreden, the Netherlands] |
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Williams,
Timothy John Wilder
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21.08.1915
Napier, NZ
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P/O
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? [NZ/401797]
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F/Lt.
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?
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DFC
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21.11.1941
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*
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DFC
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23.01.1942
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**
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* This officer has participated in 28 operational
sorties since June, 1941. He is a fearless pilot who always displays the
utmost determination to reach and bomb his objective. One night in September,
1941, whilst flying to Berlin, he failed to receive a general re-call signal.
He was one of the few who succeeded in reaching Berlin where he penetrated
into the centre of the city and released his bombs over the target area. Pilot
Officer Williams flew safely back to this country.
** In November, 1941, this officer was the captain of an aircraft carrying out
an important operational mission. During the flight, his aircraft was attacked
by some 8 enemy fighters and sustained severe damage. The front turret was put
out of action, the wireless transmitter was hit and other damage was
inflicted. Despite this, by his skill and initiative, Pilot Officer Williams
succeeded in damaging one of the enemy aircraft and completed his allotted
task. This officer has shown exceptional coolness in the face of danger.
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Education: College House, Canterbury, Christchurch,
New Zealand.
Sheep farmer.
02.07.1940
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joined
RNZAF
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(1941)
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75 (New Zealand) Squadron RAF
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(11.1941)
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