Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 7, 2012 21:04:55 GMT 12
Here is a New Zealander in the WAAF in the UK, who was sadly killed in 1942. As she was not in the NZ WAAF she is not covered by Errol Martyn's excellent trilogy (I don't think). I had not heard of NZ women in the RAF's WAAF before. I wonder how many there might have been?
Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 33, 7 August 1942, Page 6
LOSS AT SEA
MRS. FLORENCE DUFF,
W.A.A.F.
Advice has been received of the loss at sea of Section Officer Florence Duff, W.A.A.F., as the result of enemy action. Mrs. Duff was the wife of Colonel C. J. Duff and the second daughter of the late Hon. W. W. Snodgrass, M.L.C.
She was one of the first New Zealanders to obtain a commission in the W.A.A.F., which she joined as a cook in 1939. She obtained her commission as a cipher officer in 1940, and prior to leaving England was messing officer for all ranks on a large R.A.F. station. She was returning to New Zealand to take up similar duties with the women's forces here, and to join her husband, who has recently returned from active service with the 2nd N.Z.E.F. in the Middle East.
Mrs. Duff accompanied her husband to India in December, 1937, whence they proceeded to England in January, 1939. She was educated at the Nelson Girls' College.
Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 33, 7 August 1942, Page 6
LOSS AT SEA
MRS. FLORENCE DUFF,
W.A.A.F.
Advice has been received of the loss at sea of Section Officer Florence Duff, W.A.A.F., as the result of enemy action. Mrs. Duff was the wife of Colonel C. J. Duff and the second daughter of the late Hon. W. W. Snodgrass, M.L.C.
She was one of the first New Zealanders to obtain a commission in the W.A.A.F., which she joined as a cook in 1939. She obtained her commission as a cipher officer in 1940, and prior to leaving England was messing officer for all ranks on a large R.A.F. station. She was returning to New Zealand to take up similar duties with the women's forces here, and to join her husband, who has recently returned from active service with the 2nd N.Z.E.F. in the Middle East.
Mrs. Duff accompanied her husband to India in December, 1937, whence they proceeded to England in January, 1939. She was educated at the Nelson Girls' College.
