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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 23, 2013 1:19:53 GMT 12
Has anyone got more details please on NZ41532 Robert Leonard Caley? Such as his: - Date of Birth at Pukerimu, Cambridge - Date of Enlistment - Date of Demob - Rank Achieved - Date of Death at Atuamuri in 1981 - any other personal or service details www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/RL%20Caley.htmThanks. |
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Post by oggie2620 on Jul 5, 2013 23:58:19 GMT 12
Dave for all the guys where you have no details it might be worth putting a thread on www.rootschat.com/forum in their New Zealand section/military section. Spades in the NZ bit is brilliant at ferreting out information  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 6, 2013 0:29:24 GMT 12
I'm slowly getting there bit by bit as I place requests up here. Errol Martyn has been fantastic and other people have also offered info. So I'll keep putting requests up here and on the all new Wings Over Cambridge Facebook page. Then I might look at the rootschat thing when these avenues are exhausted.
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Post by shamus on Jul 11, 2013 10:29:20 GMT 12
Can't help with a lot of the information you ask but can tell you that he was in a Hind that struck power lines over the Pohangina River near Ashurst, Palmerston Nth. on 21 Nov. 1942. The Hind, NZ1544 was piloted by P/O H.H.Souter and crashed and burned on the riverbed.
The report lists Caley as AC1, photographer with the Photographic Section RNZAF Station Milson. Caley received minor injuries in the crash.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 11, 2013 12:00:54 GMT 12
Thanks Jim, yes I have this info on his page already. Interestingly Harold Souter, the pilot, also came from Cambridge! I wonder if they'd known each other from before the war. Souter was later killed in the Pacific.
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