Charles Henry Gunn

Flying Officer

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of William and Sarah Wilhelmina Gunn, of Hokitika, Westland.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

The 3 crew, Charles Gunn, Stanley Bromley and Robert Dent, were flying a Vilderbeest 4, on a 3 hour, anti-submarine escort for the USS Crescent City, en-route from Wellington to Guadalcanal. They took off a 10-05. At 14-30,they did not locate the ship and signalled back to NZ, to be told to return. They acknowledge the signal and were due to land around 15-30. At 16-40 a search was instigated, to no avail.

[For Your Tomorrow, Errol Martyn, Vol.2 p.265]

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Casualty

Service Number:

41193

Name:

Charles Henry Gunn

Rank:

Flying Officer

Date of Birth:

Not known

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Unit:

Royal New Zealand Air Force

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Air Accident

Date of Death:

30 October 1942

Day of Death:

Friday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

Embarkation Body:

Royal New Zealand Air Force

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Wellington Provincial Memorial

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand