Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 29, 2023 12:54:18 GMT 12
In an article in the NZ Herald dated 1stof October 1940 about Sir Samuel Howard Ellis donating the funds to purchase a Hawker Hurricane to the Air Ministry in London, it mentions the following about Fijians (Sam Ellis lived in Fiji, and also in Cambridge, NZ):
I am wondering who all these Fijians were that served with the RAF. Were there any natives among them? Or were they all of European stock? And were any pilots and aircrew, or all groundcrew?
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19401001.2.61.3
More on Sam Ellis here on my site. www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/Howard%20Ellis.htm
"You may care to know that Fiji sent five airmen in 1914, of whom two are now again serving in the Empire air scheme. Twenty-two from Fiji have already joined the scheme and others hope to follow."
I am wondering who all these Fijians were that served with the RAF. Were there any natives among them? Or were they all of European stock? And were any pilots and aircrew, or all groundcrew?
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19401001.2.61.3
More on Sam Ellis here on my site. www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/Howard%20Ellis.htm
