THE TWENTY THREE
There are 23 New Zealand aviators buried in Stonefall Cemetery. Their average age is 23 years old. The last of the Kiwis to be buried was Pilot Alfred Churchill Lockyer, from Wellington, who was 23 years old. He was laid to rest on the 23rd March 1945. He was piloting the last Lancaster to be shot down in World War II, falling near Withernsea on the coast near Hull.
YOUNG KIWI WORKING MEN FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE AND FROM ALL CORNERS OF NEW ZEALAND JOINED THE ROYAL NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE TO BECOME AVIATORS. THEY INCLUDED .....
Pilot Officer Navigator 421503 CHARLES AGNEW - 25
Flight Sergeant Pilot 42361 GEORGE GOODALL BELL - 21
Flying Officer Bomb Aimer 4215727 ROBERT RANUI BRADSHAW - 20
Flight Sergeant Navigator 4212641 NEIL CONWAY BURGESS - 21
Flight Sergeant Wireless Operator/Air Gunner 405472 SIDNEY WILLIAM CAINS - 24
Flight Sergeant Air Gunner 425233 GEORGE CHILD - 31
Flight Sergeant Pilot 414592 CLEMENT FREDERICK CLEMENTS - 21
Flying Officer Pilot 421503 GEORGE ROSS FLOOD - 21
Flying Officer Sergeant Wireless Operator/Air Gunner REX PATRICK FUREY - 21
Flight Sergeant Pilot 42189 COLIN ARTHUR HARRISON - 22
Flying Officer Wireless Operator/Air Gunner 427478 DESMOND CHARLES HOLLAND - 20
Flight Sergeant Navigator 421934 FRANCIS EDWARD HOTHERSALL - 30
Flight Sergeant Wireless Operator/Air Gunner 42196 WILLIAM RITCHIE INGRAM - 22
Pilot Officer Pilot 421380 DENIS PATRICK KYNE - 22
Pilot Officer Pilot 428130 ALFRED CHURCHILL LOCKYER - 23
Flying Officer Pilot 402544 TERENCE MCKINLEY D.F.C. - 21
Pilot Officer Pilot 422046 ERIC JOHN PATTERSON - 28
Flying Officer Pilot 401031 JOHN WILLIAM PURCIVALL D.F.C. - 30
Flying Officer Wireless Operator/Air Gunner 425506 FREDERICK WATSON RITCHIE - 22
Flight Sergeant Bomb Aimer 4213651 JOHN MATTHEW STACK - 27
Flying Officer Pilot 416552 EDWARD NIGEL JEFFREYS THOMSON - 21
Flying Officer Wireless Operator/Air Gunner 427509 ROBERT PERCY WOOLFIELD - 28
Flight Sergeant Pilot 4213651 PETER DAWBARN YOUNG - 22
BRAVE AND SELFLESS NEW ZEALANDERS WERE BUT A HANDFUL OF... 'THE FEW'
