Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 12, 2014 20:07:27 GMT 12
RNZAF medic receives top award
Rachel Wattie
rwattie@nzdoctor.co.nz
Thursday 11 December 2014, 10:29AM
A Royal New Zealand Air Force member of 37 years, Warrant Officer Michael Cocker, is the first to receive a top medic award in honour of the late Sergeant Gordon Watt.
RNZAF Photo
Warrant Officer Cocker, Air Force personnel and Sergeant Watt’s family members honour Watts’ memory at Base Ohakea
Warrant Officer Cocker, a Blenheim resident, was presented with the Gordon Watt Memorial Award last Friday at Base Ohakea, northwest of Palmerston North, at a ceremony in memory of Sgt Watt, who was a medical orderly.
Warrant Officer Cocker, himself a medic, says he was honoured and privileged to have been presented with the award.
Sgt Watt is the only RNZAF member to be killed on active service overseas since World War Two. He was killed by a landmine in Vietnam on 1 March 1970, and his family permitted the RNZAF to name the award in his honour.
Rachel Wattie
rwattie@nzdoctor.co.nz
Thursday 11 December 2014, 10:29AM
A Royal New Zealand Air Force member of 37 years, Warrant Officer Michael Cocker, is the first to receive a top medic award in honour of the late Sergeant Gordon Watt.
RNZAF Photo
Warrant Officer Cocker, Air Force personnel and Sergeant Watt’s family members honour Watts’ memory at Base Ohakea
Warrant Officer Cocker, a Blenheim resident, was presented with the Gordon Watt Memorial Award last Friday at Base Ohakea, northwest of Palmerston North, at a ceremony in memory of Sgt Watt, who was a medical orderly.
Warrant Officer Cocker, himself a medic, says he was honoured and privileged to have been presented with the award.
Sgt Watt is the only RNZAF member to be killed on active service overseas since World War Two. He was killed by a landmine in Vietnam on 1 March 1970, and his family permitted the RNZAF to name the award in his honour.
