New Zealand Gazette – 1944 – No. 44

Page 633

✨ Royal New Zealand Air Force Notices



JUNE 1] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 633

NZ 4217066 Sergeant Richard James Prescott VALLEN-
TINE.
NZC 433239 Sergeant John Cecil CALLAGHAN.
NZ 4215820 Sergeant Thomas Graham WALKER.
NZC 431114 Sergeant Murray Jackson WYATT.
NZ 4217071 Sergeant Gordon Barry Fyans NEILL.
NZ 431152 Sergeant William Alexander Graham BISHOP.
NZ 433704 Sergeant Edmund LEADLEY.
NZ 431221 Sergeant Ian Clark WOOLLEY.
NZ 417017 Sergeant George Henry Barrington CHILDS.
NZ 432012 Sergeant Donald Cecil ADAMS.
NZ 431356 Sergeant James Reginald GYLES.
NZ 4217043 Sergeant Ronald Howorth MARSH.
NZC 427059 Sergeant Bruce MCKINNON.
NZ 431163 Sergeant Brian William CURRIE.
NZ 4215105 Sergeant Clifford Herbert THOMS.
NZ 4215796 Sergeant William Wickett TENNET.
NZ 432224 Sergeant Douglas Bryce ROPE.
NZ 432911 Sergeant Frederick William SAWYER.
NZ 432045 Sergeant Stanley Garrick LIVINGSTONE.
NZ 4213461 Sergeant John William OAKLEY.
NZ 4215262 Sergeant Arthur Lloyd TAYLOR.
NZ 4217077 Sergeant Ross Smith MACARTHUR.
NZ 431714 Sergeant Herbert GRIMSON.
NZ 431319 Sergeant Roger Leon CORCORAN.

As Navigators—
Dated 5th May, 1944—
NZ 4210709 Sergeant Peter Frederick CALVERT.
NZ 436154 Sergeant Bruce Riddell HENDERSON.
NZ 4211898 Sergeant Jack Kenneth THIELE.
NZ 425500 Sergeant William Henry MALONEY.
NZC 4213388 Sergeant Francis Royden CLARKE.
NZ 434678 Sergeant Stanley Thomas SMYTH.
NZ 4212786 Sergeant Reginald George David ADLAM.
NZ 4211709 Sergeant Charles Mackenzie HERBERT.
NZ 4211856 Sergeant Albert Douglas FRASER.
NZ 4216221 Sergeant Cecil David WILSON.
NZ 4210949 Sergeant George Alexander RAIT.

As Air Bombers—
Dated 5th May, 1944—
NZ 4213877 Sergeant Robert William Gilbert ALEXANDER.
NZ 432257 Sergeant David Cartmer MOULTRIE.
NZ 4212657 Sergeant Sidney FRANKS.

Promotions
Flight Lieutenant (temp.) Thomas Drummond WEBSTER to be Acting Squadron Leader (paid). Dated 15th May, 1944.

The undermentioned Flying Officers to be Flight Lieutenants (temp.) :—
Dated 27th April, 1944—
Colin Garvin BROWN. Philip Albert LEWIN.
William Charles Kingston HENDER.

Dated 1st May, 1944—
Hansford Ward CHAMBERS, D.F.C. Lloyd ELLIOTT.
Peter MERCER. Robert George LYNN.
Bernard Cyril William SIMMONDS. Charles Anthony ARMSTRONG, D.F.M.
Brian Ennis Hull LAYNE. Ernest CLOW.
Douglas Fleming WATSON. Robert Arthur COLVILLE.
Selwyn Guy COOPER. Charles Victor BARGH.

Dated 2nd May, 1944: Douglas Gordon COOKSON.

Flying Officer (temp.) Robert Bell HAMILTON to be Acting Flight Lieutenant (paid). Dated 1st May, 1944.

The undermentioned Pilot Officers to be Flying Officers (temp.) :—
Dated 6th November, 1943: Henry Edward RICHMOND.
Dated 4th March, 1944: Claude Theodore Vignoles PAGE.
Dated 25th March, 1944: Cedric Stanley GAY.
Dated 27th March, 1944: Rawdon Lambton CARTER.

Dated 25th April, 1944—
Trevor Lowther Wright MULLINDER. Leonard Claude BAINES.

Dated 26th April, 1944—
Leslie John CARTER. Lionel Horace BURRIDGE.

Dated 27th April, 1944: Raymond John CAMMOCK.

Dated 28th April, 1944—
Colin Roy BAKER. Robert Maitland ROBINSON.

Dated 29th April, 1944—
Colin MUIR. Ronald Fergusson O’BRIEN.
Gordon Howe WARREN. Stuart Hector RICHMOND.
Arthur Francis THOMPSON. John Gibson WEBB.
William George BIRNIE. Macnab BETTJEMAN.
Eric James PARSONS. Neill Henry ELLIS.
Dawson John PERCIVAL. James Venton CASTLES.
Roderick George HOFFMAN. Cecil Paul SPARKES.
Allan Montague BEZZANT.

Dated 30th April, 1944: George Thomas COUTTIE.

Dated 1st May, 1944—
Lawrence William HITCHINS, D.F.M. Beryck Phillip William DALCOM.
Kenneth Pearson FISHER.

Transfers
The undermentioned Pilot Officers are transferred from Administrative and Special Duties Branch to the General Duties Branch in their present rank :—

As Pilots—
Dated 5th May, 1944—
George Ewen BALLANTYNE. Ronald Raymond HITCHCOCK.

As Navigators—
Dated 1st May, 1944: Eric O’BRIEN.
Dated 5th May, 1944—
Charles Phillip Dent CHILDS. Ernest Carl BOTT.
Arthur Edmund ANDREWES. George WILKINSON.
Geoffrey Wallace BIBBY.

As Air Bombers—
Dated 5th May, 1944—
Alan Macpherson LEE. Clarence William ANDERSON.

EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION II: TECHNICAL OFFICERS
Promotion
Armament Duties—
Pilot Officer Reginald Horatio JARRATT to be Flying Officer (temp.). Dated 28th April, 1944.

MEDICAL BRANCH
Promotion
Flying Officer David Lloyd RICHWHITE, M.B., Ch.B., to be Flight Lieutenant (temp.). Dated 3rd March, 1944.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, and Relinquishments of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force

Air Department,
Wellington, 26th May, 1944.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the following appointments, promotions, transfers, and relinquishments of officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force :—

GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH
Appointments
The undermentioned officers, on relinquishing their commissions in the Reserve of Air Force Officers (United Kingdom), are granted temporary commissions in the ranks shown. Dated 1st January, 1944 :—

As Pilots—
In the rank of Squadron Leader—
With seniority as from 1st July, 1943—
NZ 2214 Alexander FRAME, D.F.C.

In the rank of Flight Lieutenant—
With seniority as from 28th May, 1941—
NZ 2216 Claude Alexander HANSEN.

With seniority as from 2nd October, 1941—
NZ 2212 Leicester Cornelius KINGSBURY, D.F.C.

With seniority as from 3rd December, 1941—
NZ 2213 Charles Robertson HUTTON.

As Navigator—
In the rank of Flight Lieutenant—
With seniority as from 3rd September, 1941—
NZ 2215 Ian Ronald GOW.

The undermentioned are granted temporary commissions in the rank of Pilot Officer :—

As Pilots—
Dated 1st May, 1944—
NZ 421734 Flight Sergeant Rae LOWTHER.
NZ 415695 Flight Sergeant William Dudley HOLMES.
NZ 421058 Flight Sergeant Douglas Roy Chambers HUTCHINS.

As Wireless Operator/Air Gunners—
Dated 1st May, 1944—
NZ 413852 Flight Sergeant Alan John HUTCHINSON.
NZ 414412 Flight Sergeant Kenneth James MOORHOUSE.
NZ 412438 Flight Sergeant Robert Lewis SMITH.

As Air Gunner—
Dated 1st May, 1944—
NZ 403772 Warrant Officer Amos Arthur BATTY.

Promotions
Squadron Leader (temp.) Aubrey Arthur Ninnis BRECKON, D.F.C., to be Acting Wing Commander (paid). Dated 23rd May, 1944.

Flying Officer (temp.) Eric John TRESIDDER to be Acting Flight Lieutenant (paid). Dated 15th May, 1944.



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🛡️ Appointments, Promotions, and Transfers of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (continued from previous page)

🛡️ Defence & Military
26 May 1944
Royal New Zealand Air Force, Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Navigators, Air Bombers, Pilots
98 names identified
  • Richard James Prescott Valentine (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • John Cecil Callaghan (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Thomas Graham Walker (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Murray Jackson Wyatt (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Gordon Barry Fyans Neill (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • William Alexander Graham Bishop (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Edmund Leadley (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Ian Clark Woolley (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • George Henry Barrington Childs (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Donald Cecil Adams (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • James Reginald Gyles (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Ronald Howorth Marsh (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Bruce McKinnon (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Brian William Currie (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Clifford Herbert Thoms (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • William Wickett Tennet (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Douglas Bryce Rope (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Frederick William Sawyer (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Stanley Garrick Livingstone (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • John William Oakley (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Arthur Lloyd Taylor (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Ross Smith MacArthur (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Herbert Grimson (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Roger Leon Corcoran (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Peter Frederick Calvert (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Bruce Riddell Henderson (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Jack Kenneth Thiele (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • William Henry Maloney (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Francis Royden Clarke (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Stanley Thomas Smyth (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Reginald George David Adlam (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Charles Mackenzie Herbert (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Albert Douglas Fraser (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Cecil David Wilson (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • George Alexander Rait (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Robert William Gilbert Alexander (Sergeant), Appointed as Air Bomber
  • David Cartmer Moultrie (Sergeant), Appointed as Air Bomber
  • Sidney Franks (Sergeant), Appointed as Air Bomber
  • Thomas Drummond Webster (Flight Lieutenant (temp.)), Promoted to Acting Squadron Leader
  • Colin Garvin Brown (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.)
  • Philip Albert Lewin (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.)
  • William Charles Kingston Hender (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.)
  • Hansford Ward Chambers (Flying Officer, D.F.C.), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.)
  • Lloyd Elliott (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.)
  • Peter Mercer (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.)
  • Robert George Lynn (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.)
  • Bernard Cyril William Simmonds (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.)
  • Charles Anthony Armstrong (Flying Officer, D.F.M.), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.)
  • Brian Ennis Hull Layne (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.)
  • Ernest Clow (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.)
  • Douglas Fleming Watson (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.)
  • Robert Arthur Colville (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.)
  • Selwyn Guy Cooper (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.)
  • Charles Victor Bargh (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.)
  • Douglas Gordon Cookson (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.)
  • Robert Bell Hamilton (Flying Officer (temp.)), Promoted to Acting Flight Lieutenant
  • Henry Edward Richmond (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Claude Theodore Vignoles Page (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Cedric Stanley Gay (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Rawdon Lambton Carter (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Trevor Lowther Wright Mullinder (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Leonard Claude Baines (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Leslie John Carter (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Lionel Horace Burridge (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Raymond John Cammock (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Colin Roy Baker (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Robert Maitland Robinson (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Colin Muir (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Ronald Fergusson O'Brien (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Gordon Howe Warren (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Stuart Hector Richmond (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Arthur Francis Thompson (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • John Gibson Webb (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • William George Birnie (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Macnab Bettjeman (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Eric James Parsons (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Neill Henry Ellis (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Dawson John Percival (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • James Venton Castles (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Roderick George Hoffman (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Cecil Paul Sparkes (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Allan Montague Bezzant (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • George Thomas Couttie (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Lawrence William Hitchins (Pilot Officer, D.F.M.), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Beryck Phillip William Dalcom (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • Kenneth Pearson Fisher (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.)
  • George Ewen Ballantyne (Pilot Officer), Transferred to General Duties Branch as Pilot
  • Ronald Raymond Hitchcock (Pilot Officer), Transferred to General Duties Branch as Pilot
  • Eric O'Brien (Pilot Officer), Transferred to General Duties Branch as Navigator
  • Charles Phillip Dent Childs (Pilot Officer), Transferred to General Duties Branch as Navigator
  • Ernest Carl Bott (Pilot Officer), Transferred to General Duties Branch as Navigator
  • Arthur Edmund Andrewes (Pilot Officer), Transferred to General Duties Branch as Navigator
  • George Wilkinson (Pilot Officer), Transferred to General Duties Branch as Navigator
  • Geoffrey Wallace Bibby (Pilot Officer), Transferred to General Duties Branch as Navigator
  • Alan Macpherson Lee (Pilot Officer), Transferred to General Duties Branch as Air Bomber
  • Clarence William Anderson (Pilot Officer), Transferred to General Duties Branch as Air Bomber
  • Reginald Horatio Jarratt (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer (temp.) in Equipment Branch
  • David Lloyd Richwhite (Flying Officer, M.B., Ch.B.), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (temp.) in Medical Branch

  • F. Jones, Minister of Defence

🛡️ Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, and Relinquishments of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force

🛡️ Defence & Military
26 May 1944
Royal New Zealand Air Force, Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Pilots, Navigators, Wireless Operators, Air Gunners
14 names identified
  • Alexander Frame (Squadron Leader, D.F.C.), Granted temporary commission as Squadron Leader
  • Claude Alexander Hansen (Flight Lieutenant), Granted temporary commission as Flight Lieutenant
  • Leicester Cornelius Kingsbury (Flight Lieutenant, D.F.C.), Granted temporary commission as Flight Lieutenant
  • Charles Robertson Hutton (Flight Lieutenant), Granted temporary commission as Flight Lieutenant
  • Ian Ronald Gow (Flight Lieutenant), Granted temporary commission as Navigator
  • Rae Lowther (Flight Sergeant), Granted temporary commission as Pilot Officer
  • William Dudley Holmes (Flight Sergeant), Granted temporary commission as Pilot Officer
  • Douglas Roy Chambers Hutchins (Flight Sergeant), Granted temporary commission as Pilot Officer
  • Alan John Hutchinson (Flight Sergeant), Granted temporary commission as Pilot Officer
  • Kenneth James Moorhouse (Flight Sergeant), Granted temporary commission as Pilot Officer
  • Robert Lewis Smith (Flight Sergeant), Granted temporary commission as Pilot Officer
  • Amos Arthur Batty (Warrant Officer), Granted temporary commission as Pilot Officer
  • Aubrey Arthur Ninnis Breckon (Squadron Leader (temp.), D.F.C.), Promoted to Acting Wing Commander
  • Eric John Tresidder (Flying Officer (temp.)), Promoted to Acting Flight Lieutenant

  • F. Jones, Minister of Defence