New Names for the Cambridge Website

[Dave Homewood]

Thanks to Papers Past adding up the wartime copies of the Auckland Star I now have some perviously undiscovered names of Cambridge men and women who served in WWII. I know nothing more about them than these snippets as I have just found them. Can anyone here please add more?

Flying Officer A. D. Ray of Cambridge
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19451215.2.42&srpos=82&e=01-09-1939--12-1945--10-AS-81-byDA---0cambridge+r%2en%2ez%2ea%2ef%2e--


Albert George Wood RNZAF of Cambridge
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19420117.2.106&srpos=11&e=01-09-1939--12-1945--10-AS-11-byDA---0cambridge+r%2en%2ez%2ea%2ef%2e--

Betty Maude Wild WAAF of Cambridge (engaged to F/O Desmond Leo Hogan)
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19430807.2.6&srpos=29&e=01-09-1939--12-1945--10-AS-21-byDA---0cambridge+r%2en%2ez%2ea%2ef%2e--


Edward Phillip Wood RNZAF of Cambridge
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19440819.2.86&srpos=49&e=01-09-1939--12-1945--10-AS-41-byDA---0cambridge+r%2en%2ez%2ea%2ef%2e--


Florence May Saville WAAF of Cambridge (engaged to and I believe married to F/O Maxwell James Millener RNZAF)
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19440603.2.92.3&srpos=43&e=01-09-1939--12-1945--10-AS-41-byDA---0cambridge+r%2en%2ez%2ea%2ef%2e--

Any service numbers, date of joining, date of birth/death, details of service or any other information would be most appreciated please.

[Dave Homewood]

Another new to me:
Flight Mechanic trainee D.P. Shattock
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19400726.2.24&srpos=25&e=01-09-1939--12-1945--10-AS-21-byDA---0cambridge+air+force--

Also Dr. W.H. Entwistle, a Cambridge High School teacher, became an RNZAF Education Officer
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19400606.2.98&srpos=22&e=01-09-1939--12-1945--10-AS-21-byDA---0cambridge+air+force--

Does anyone know more about these chaps please?

[Dave Homewood]

Another name:

Norman Deans Porritt, who received leg injuries in training:
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19421118.2.70&srpos=102&e=01-09-1939--12-1945--10-AS-101-byDA---0cambridge+air+force--

[Dave Homewood]

And LAC J.W. MacFarlane
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19450608.2.113.1&srpos=191&e=01-09-1939--12-1945--10-AS-191-byDA---0cambridge+air+force--

[Dave Homewood]

And the following Air Force personnel all listed as from Cambridge *this is amazing!!)
Flying Officer T.H. Biltcliffe
A. Gall
M.M. McDonald
L. Ozich
E.D. Kemsley
Warrant Officer D. M. Byrne

paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19451022.2.16.1&srpos=202&e=01-09-1939--12-1945--10-AS-201-byDA---0cambridge+air+force--

[Dave Homewood]

And Cecil Alec Wright

paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19451025.2.98&srpos=203&e=01-09-1939--12-1945--10-AS-201-byDA---0cambridge+air+force--

This guy is old, 48, so may have served in WWI or between the wars?

[Dave Homewood]

Ws this WAAF actually also from Cambridge? Ruth Violet McInnes

paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19431119.2.51&srpos=133&e=01-09-1939--12-1945--10-AS-131-byDA---0cambridge+air+force--

[corsair67]

Dave, I will have to check up on this, but I think LAC McFarlane was badly injured in a cockpit fire whilst starting a Corsair up.

[Dave Homewood]

OK, thanks Craig. I have a MacFarlane on the website already and wonder if he's a brother.

I'm stiull reeling at the fact I have found so many new names in one day!

[corsair67]

NZ5371 - 22/05/1945, 09.45hrs:

Aircraft ignited while starting up and destroyed by fire at Piva North. LAC J.W McFarlane of 31SU badly burned in cockpit, aircraft W/O.

From Warren P. Russell's 'NZPAF/RNZAF Aircraft Colour Schemes - Corsair Special'.

[Dave Homewood]

Thanks Craig - great memory!!