"Shortly before midday yesterday planes searching for the Kereru  {an NZNAC Lodestar that had gone missing earlier that day} sighted the wreckage of an aircraft on the hills inland from the mouth of the Otaki River.

Investigation revealed that it was the burned-out wreckage of an RNZAF Ventura which was lost on a routine meteorological flight from Ohakea on February 28, 1946. It had a crew of four. The crew were: — Flight Lieutenant Walter Gordon Jacobs, the pilot, whose wife, Mrs C. N. Jacobs, lives at Morrinsville.

Flight Lieutenant Sidney Howard Langton, the navigator, whose mother, Mrs F. E. Langton, resides at ~108 Duke Street, Mt Eden, Auckland. Warrant Officer Hedley Beaumont Newell, the wireless operator-airgun-ner, whose father lives at Templeton, Canterbury. A.C.I Anthony John Hayhurst, the meteorologist, whose father. Mr C. D, Hayhurst, resides at Temuka."

NORTHERN ADVOCATE, 19 MARCH 1949, PAGE 5

All 4 Airmen are buried in this cemetery