Tuesday 21 December 2021

422361 Pilot Officer Ronald William Bremner, 27/7/1922-5/2/1944.

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An air personnel casualty list issued to-day contains the name of Flying officer Ronald William Bremner, in the category "missing on air operations." His father is Mr A. F. Bremner, Dunedin.  -Evening Star, 17/3/1944. 



DEATHS PRESUMED

AIR FORCE PACIFIC CASUALTIES   (abridged)

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 26. The following R.N.Z.A.F. casualty list was released to-day: —  PREVIOUSLY MISSING IN THE PACIFIC AREA (DEATH NOW PRESUMED) 

Blundell, Acting-Squadron-Leader John Crayley (Inglewood); Bremner, Flying Officer Ronald William (Dunedin);  -Press, 27/7/1946.


GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT 

I HEREBY give notice of my intention to issue at the expiry of Two weeks from this date, unless objection be previously lodged, a COPY POLICY to take the place of Policy No. 387185 on the life of Ronald William Bremner, member R.N.Z.A.F., formerly of Omaka, Blenheim, and Harewood, but now deceased, which is declared to have been lost. 

H. L. RYAN, Commissioner. Wellington, March 6, 1947.   -Press, 6/3/1947.


That is all that can be found from the contemporary newspapers of the life and death of Flying Officer Ronald Bremner.  Further online research reveals that he flew a Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk with No. 18 Squadron, RNZAF, and his final mission was as part of a fighter escort for a mixed group of Douglas Dauntless bombers and Grumman Avenger torpedo bombers. They attacked a Japanese airfield and were intercepted by Japanese fighters.  Two Kittyhawks were seen to crash into the sea and one of the missing pilots was Robert Bremner. 


Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.


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