New Zealand Gazette – 1944 – No. 80

Page 1141

✨ Royal New Zealand Air Force Notices



SEPT. 21] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1141

As Navigators—
Dated 11th July, 1944—
NZ 39975 Warrant Officer Ronald Edward WITCOMBE.
Dated 1st August, 1944—
NZ 4213302 Flight Sergeant Douglas Bicket STEVENSON.
Dated 12th August, 1944—
NZ 424458 Flight Sergeant Harold James HAMMOND.
Dated 25th August, 1944—
NZ 425747 Sergeant Richard Brian NEWING.
NZ 4217027 Sergeant Desmond Earle HASTINGS.
NZC 437339 Sergeant Norman Arthur RIDDLE.

As Wireless Operator/Air Gunners—
Dated 27th May, 1944—
NZ 41581 Warrant Officer John William GILLGREN.
Dated 30th May, 1944—
NZ 404682 Warrant Officer Albert William PRISK.
Dated 14th June, 1944—
NZ 421757 Flight Sergeant Herbert Charles PLANK.
Dated 1st August, 1944—
NZ 402995 Warrant Officer William Donald GORDON.
NZ 414498 Warrant Officer Leonard William DORNBUSCH.
Dated 25th August, 1944—
NZ 405421 Sergeant Rodney Burton BISHOP.

As Air Bombers—
Dated 24th June, 1944—
NZ 422567 Flight Sergeant Cecil Roy GRIFFIN.
Dated 2nd August, 1944—
NZ 42472 Flight Sergeant Maurice Colin STANLEY.
Dated 16th August, 1944—
NZ 413301 Warrant Officer Ivo John ALLEN.
Dated 25th August, 1944—
NZC 4310781 Sergeant Ivan Bruce Clare BROWN.
NZC 4312639 Sergeant Grant Parker WILSON.
NZ 4211886 Sergeant Colby Graham FROST.

As Air Gunner—
Dated 1st August, 1944—
NZ 401221 Warrant Officer Allan Robert James Box, D.F.M.

Promotions

The undermentioned Pilot Officers to be Flying Officers (temp.) :—
Dated 29th April, 1944 : Ian Thomas REID.
Dated 1st May, 1944 : Colin Campbell BAIRD.
Dated 9th June, 1944 : Stuart William HALL.
Dated 10th June, 1944—
Archibald CAMERON. Harold Raymond KELSEY.
Claude Hereward BAIGENT. Francis Stephen SHARPE.
Albert Charles RAINS. Robert Graham LOGAN.
James Plant ROSCOE. Kenneth McARTHUR.
Hugh Stewart ORR. Reuben John SMITH.
Matthew METCALFE.
Dated 23rd June, 1944—
Grantham Noel MCGILL-NUTT. Erling William ZIESLER.
Geoffrey HARDWICK-SMITH. Roy Seymour McINTOSH.
Leyton Permain STEPHENSON. John King WILLIAMS.
Frederick Arthur JOLLY. Ove Ahnfeldt SCANNELL.
Albert John Lawrence HESSEY. John Hetherington MURRAY.
Neil Marris MANSSEN. Richard James Cope FORD.
Frank Wakefield HOLMES. Ernest Reginald LLOYD.
Richard Alan FALCONER. Douglas Eric MCELWAIN.
John Duncan BROWN.
Dated 25th June, 1944 : Owen Walton DAVIES.

Transfers

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

As Navigators—
Dated 25th August, 1944—
Pilot Officer Bryan Nelson FOY.
Pilot Officer Bruce Gurney THOMSON.

As Air Bombers—
Dated 11th August, 1944—
Pilot Officer Rex Clayton PICKETT.
Pilot Officer Colin Herbert McISAAC.

Amendment

The notices appearing in the New Zealand Gazettes No. 72, dated 11th July, 1940, page 1663, under the heading “General Duties Branch—Appointments,” No. 12, dated 5th February, 1942, page 455, and No. 70, dated 23rd July, 1942, page 1944, under the headings “General Duties Branch—Promotions,” relating to “Clarence William EVANS” are amended to read “Kenneth Eric EVANS.”

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH

Promotion

Pilot Officer Kenneth POTTER to be Flying Officer (temp.). Dated 22nd June, 1944.

Relinquishment

Flight Lieutenant Cecil Gordon FENTON, M.C., is permitted to relinquish his temporary commission. Dated 11th September, 1944.

B

RESERVE OF AIR FORCE OFFICERS

Transfers

The undermentioned officers are transferred from the Active List to the Reserve of Air Force Officers, Class B, Section I :—
Dated 5th September, 1944: Flight Lieutenant Brian Elliott OLIVER.
Dated 9th September, 1944 : Flying Officer Henry Ashby BLINKHORNE.
Dated 13th September, 1944 : Flying Officer Ernest Compton HIGGINS.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

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

Air Department,
Wellington, 16th September, 1944.

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

GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH

Appointments

As Pilots—
NZ 2314 David Walter Sealy CLARK, D.F.C., whose Short-service Commission in the Royal Air Force expired on the 16th August, 1944, is granted a temporary commission in the rank of Squadron Leader, with seniority as from the 10th August, 1943. Dated 17th August, 1944.

The undermentioned are granted temporary commissions in the rank of Pilot Officer :—
Dated 22nd July, 1944—
NZ 425601 Flight Sergeant Ronald Athol STONE.
Dated 24th July, 1944—
NZC 424265 Flight Sergeant Alfred Owen WELLS.
Dated 28th July, 1944—
NZ 424509 Flight Sergeant Graham Warren PATERSON.
Dated 1st August, 1944—
NZ 429215 Flight Sergeant Leonard Charles STRAWBRIDGE.
NZ 4211707 Flight Sergeant Harold Patrick CRUMP.
NZC 4215722 Flight Sergeant Robert Anderson BARNETT.
Dated 5th August, 1944—
NZ 424519 Flight Sergeant George Mansell PROCTOR.
Dated 7th August, 1944—
NZ 42831 Flight Sergeant Arthur John PRESCOTT.
Dated 18th August, 1944—
NZ 413392 Warrant Officer Gordon Kenneth EASTER.

As Navigators—
Dated 22nd June, 1944—
NZ 413712 Warrant Officer Donald Denton McLEOD.
Dated 31st July, 1944—
NZ 416636 Warrant Officer Vincent Hazledine HURREY.
Dated 1st September, 1944—
NZ 2312 Roy Bradley BOULD.
NZ 2313 Alan William ALBRECHT.

As Wireless Operator/Air Gunners—
Dated 7th August, 1944—
NZ 426129 Flight Sergeant Douglas Graeme SUTHERLAND.
Dated 25th August, 1944—
NZ 428146 Sergeant Colin George Meares PAYNE.
NZ 431291 Sergeant Harold Maxwell SMITH.

Promotions

The undermentioned Flying Officers to be Flight Lieutenants (temp.) :—
Dated 5th June, 1944 : Donald George Thomas HILLS.
Dated 31st July, 1944 : Douglas Scott MACDONALD.
Dated 3rd August, 1944 : Leonard CHAMBERS, D.F.C.
Dated 4th August, 1944—
William George JUDSON. James MURRAY.
Francis Cowles OXLEY. Keith Eversleigh Walter EVANS.
Anthony Charles HARLEY. Stewart DICKSON.
Colin Douglas CHAMMEN. Donald Alexander LUZMOOR.
Raymond Alfred DALTON. Montague Bernard ANGELO.
Dated 8th August, 1944 : Patrick James MACAVOY, D.F.C.
Dated 13th August, 1944—
Stamford Seaton WILLIAMS.
Leighton John MONTGOMERIE, D.F.C.
Malcolm George SUTHERLAND.
Dated 14th August, 1944—
Lindsay Thomas ARMSTRONG. Douglas Jonathan HIBBS.
Wallace Noel D’AUDNEY. Eric Kingsley NECKLEN.
Laurie GASSON. Hector John PLANK, D.F.C.
Alfred Ronald THOMPSON. Frank Ross DAWES.
Noel O’Kane HOBBS. William David BARNEY.
Russel Tonson GARLICK. William John Gliddon KNOX.
Carlyle James Hartley BLACKIE. Donald Nelson COOK.
William Edwin ANDERSON.
Dated 16th August, 1944 : Owen Ellice FOSTER.
Dated 17th August, 1944—
Joseph Benedict MULLAN. George Edwin ATKINSON.
Dated 21st August, 1944—
Edmond William Francis GABITES.
Thomas Alfred PENN.
John David Monroe HERRON, D.F.M.



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

🛡️ Defence & Military
13 September 1944
Royal New Zealand Air Force, Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Relinquishment
115 names identified
  • Ronald Edward Witcombe (Warrant Officer), Appointed as Navigator
  • Douglas Bicket Stevenson (Flight Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Harold James Hammond (Flight Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Richard Brian Newing (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Desmond Earle Hastings (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • Norman Arthur Riddle (Sergeant), Appointed as Navigator
  • John William Gillgren (Warrant Officer), Appointed as Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
  • Albert William Prisk (Warrant Officer), Appointed as Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
  • Herbert Charles Plank (Flight Sergeant), Appointed as Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
  • William Donald Gordon (Warrant Officer), Appointed as Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
  • Leonard William Dornbusch (Warrant Officer), Appointed as Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
  • Rodney Burton Bishop (Sergeant), Appointed as Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
  • Cecil Roy Griffin (Flight Sergeant), Appointed as Air Bomber
  • Maurice Colin Stanley (Flight Sergeant), Appointed as Air Bomber
  • Ivo John Allen (Warrant Officer), Appointed as Air Bomber
  • Ivan Bruce Clare Brown (Sergeant), Appointed as Air Bomber
  • Grant Parker Wilson (Sergeant), Appointed as Air Bomber
  • Colby Graham Frost (Sergeant), Appointed as Air Bomber
  • Allan Robert James Box (Warrant Officer), Appointed as Air Gunner
  • Ian Thomas Reid (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Colin Campbell Baird (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Stuart William Hall (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Archibald Cameron (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Harold Raymond Kelsey (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Claude Hereward Baigent (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Francis Stephen Sharpe (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Albert Charles Rains (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Robert Graham Logan (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • James Plant Roscoe (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Kenneth McArthur (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Hugh Stewart Orr (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Reuben John Smith (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Matthew Metcalfe (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Grantham Noel McGill-Nutt (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Erling William Ziesler (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Geoffrey Hardwick-Smith (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Roy Seymour McIntosh (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Leyton Permain Stephenson (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John King Williams (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Frederick Arthur Jolly (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Ove Ahnfeldt Scannell (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Albert John Lawrence Hessey (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Hetherington Murray (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Neil Marris Manssen (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Richard James Cope Ford (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Frank Wakefield Holmes (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Ernest Reginald Lloyd (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Richard Alan Falconer (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Douglas Eric McElwain (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • John Duncan Brown (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Owen Walton Davies (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Bryan Nelson Foy (Pilot Officer), Transferred to General Duties Branch
  • Bruce Gurney Thomson (Pilot Officer), Transferred to General Duties Branch
  • Rex Clayton Pickett (Pilot Officer), Transferred to General Duties Branch
  • Colin Herbert McIsaac (Pilot Officer), Transferred to General Duties Branch
  • Kenneth Potter (Pilot Officer), Promoted to Flying Officer
  • Cecil Gordon Fenton (Flight Lieutenant), Relinquished temporary commission
  • Brian Elliott Oliver (Flight Lieutenant), Transferred to Reserve of Air Force Officers
  • Henry Ashby Blinkhorne (Flying Officer), Transferred to Reserve of Air Force Officers
  • Ernest Compton Higgins (Flying Officer), Transferred to Reserve of Air Force Officers
  • David Walter Sealy Clark (Squadron Leader), Granted temporary commission as Pilot
  • Ronald Athol Stone (Pilot Officer), Granted temporary commission as Pilot
  • Alfred Owen Wells (Pilot Officer), Granted temporary commission as Pilot
  • Graham Warren Paterson (Pilot Officer), Granted temporary commission as Pilot
  • Leonard Charles Strawbridge (Pilot Officer), Granted temporary commission as Pilot
  • Harold Patrick Crump (Pilot Officer), Granted temporary commission as Pilot
  • Robert Anderson Barnett (Pilot Officer), Granted temporary commission as Pilot
  • George Mansell Proctor (Pilot Officer), Granted temporary commission as Pilot
  • Arthur John Prescott (Pilot Officer), Granted temporary commission as Pilot
  • Gordon Kenneth Easter (Pilot Officer), Granted temporary commission as Pilot
  • Donald Denton McLeod (Pilot Officer), Granted temporary commission as Navigator
  • Vincent Hazledine Hurrey (Pilot Officer), Granted temporary commission as Navigator
  • Roy Bradley Bould (Pilot Officer), Granted temporary commission as Navigator
  • Alan William Albrecht (Pilot Officer), Granted temporary commission as Navigator
  • Douglas Graeme Sutherland (Pilot Officer), Granted temporary commission as Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
  • Colin George Meares Payne (Sergeant), Granted temporary commission as Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
  • Harold Maxwell Smith (Sergeant), Granted temporary commission as Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
  • Donald George Thomas Hills (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Douglas Scott MacDonald (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Leonard Chambers (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • William George Judson (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • James Murray (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Francis Cowles Oxley (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Keith Eversleigh Walter Evans (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Anthony Charles Harley (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Stewart Dickson (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Colin Douglas Chammen (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Donald Alexander Luzmoor (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Raymond Alfred Dalton (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Montague Bernard Angelo (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Patrick James MacAvoy (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Stamford Seaton Williams (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Leighton John Montgomerie (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Malcolm George Sutherland (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Lindsay Thomas Armstrong (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Douglas Jonathan Hibbs (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Wallace Noel D'Audney (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Eric Kingsley Necklen (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Laurie Gasson (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Hector John Plank (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Alfred Ronald Thompson (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Frank Ross Dawes (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Noel O'Kane Hobbs (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • William David Barney (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Russel Tonson Garlick (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • William John Gliddon Knox (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Carlyle James Hartley Blackie (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Donald Nelson Cook (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • William Edwin Anderson (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Owen Ellice Foster (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Joseph Benedict Mullan (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • George Edwin Atkinson (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Edmond William Francis Gabites (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • Thomas Alfred Penn (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • John David Monroe Herron (Flying Officer), Promoted to Flight Lieutenant

  • F. Jones, Minister of Defence