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Servicemen's deaths

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  Posted by Caro (U1691443) on Tuesday, 5th January 2010

  I don't know if this is quite the thing to put here but our newspaper had a list of the well-known NZers who died this year and these ones are connected to war. I thought some of you might find them interesting. Or not perhaps. (Apologies to those of you who find the phrase 'World War 2' objectionable - it is much shorter to write.)
  
  Cheers, Caro.
  
  So here they are:
  
  Wing commander Warren β€œSmokey” Schrader, DFC and bar (aged 87). Outstanding WW2 fighter pilot who commanded RAF’s only jet squadron in combat.
  
  Lieutenant-colonel John Maling (94). Timaru-born soldier who won the MC on northwest frontier prewar and DSO in Burma in WW@; later worked for the Security Intelligence Service.
  
  Roy Natusch, MM (90). Hawkes Bay farmer, WW2 soldier noted for numerous escapes, the last successful when he walked through Hungary, Yugoslavia to freedom. See
  
  Group Captain Max Hope (87). Commander 1951-54 of New Zealand’s first jet squadron – No 14 flying Vampires.
  
  Harold Lusk, QC (90). One of the dwindling band of New Zealand Battle of Britain pilots who flew Blemheims in that period; Palmerston North barrister postwar.
  
  Terry Herrick, DSC amd bar (97). World War 2 Royal Navy destroyer commander; member of a noted Hawkes Bay family which lost three sons in the air force.
  
  Squadron Leader Colin Fraser (90). Airman who was detachment commander RNZAF aircrew who flew in the Berlin Airlift; later RNZAF Provost Marshal.
  
  Hugh Miller (95), former Queenstown developer and farmer who was one of New Zealand’s most decorated airmen eith the Distinguished Flying Cross and mentioned in dispatches four times.
  John Pattison, DSO, DFC (92). Battle of Britain pilot who later commanded 485 (NZ) Spitfire Squadron.
  
  Cyril Pasco (92). Second-last survivor of the famed WW2 Kiwi Concert Party.
  
  Terence Nolan, DSO (94). Lieutenant-colonel of artillery in New Zealand Division WW@; postwar chief of Consolidated Plastics Ltd.
  
  Flight Sergeant Andrew Forster (46). Airman who specialised in armaments, bomb disposal. Killed whne an unexploded artillery shell detonated at Waiouru (army base).
  
  Fred Silberstein, QSM (80). Auschwitz survivor who testified at the Nuremberg trials, spent years educating New Zealanders about Holocaust horrors.
  
  Doug Hawker (93). WW2 bomber pilot, flew 35 raids, won DFC.
  
  

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  Posted by LongWeekend (U3023428) on Tuesday, 5th January 2010

  Caro
  
  Quite a few of these chaps had obituaries in our national newspapers, so not forgotten over here, either.
  
  Cheers
  
  LW

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