Sergeant James Douglas Gould, who is reported to be fit and well after participating in the recent raids on Cologne and Essen, was born at Otautau 21 years ago, and attended the Otautau school and the Southland Technical College. After leaving school he was employed by his father, a contractor in Otautau, with whom he worked till the time of his enlistment in the early stages of the war. Sergeant Gould was mentioned in a Press Association message from London describing the exploit of one plane attached to the New Zealand Bomber Squadron in shooting down the first Nazi night fighter claimed by the squadron this year. -Southland Times, 12/6/1942.
James Gould was reported "Missing on air operations" the following month. On the night of July 10th, 1942, James was part of the crew of a Wellington which took off for the island of Borkum in the North Sea. The plane was lost without any trace of it or its crew.
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