G. E. Hemsworth
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Well-known Pilot Missing in New Guinea Area
ONE of New Guinea’s famous air pilots, Squadron-Leader Godfrey Ellard Hemsworth, aged 32, was reported missing late in May, when he failed to return from an operational flight against the Japanese in the New Guinea area.
In the King’s Birthday honours, announced on June 11, Squadron-Leader Hemsworth was awarded the Air Force Cross.
He is one of four brothers in the RAAF; and he was very well known in New Guinea in the early thirties, when he flew for Guinea Airways and Pacific
Aerial Transport. He became associated with Ray Parer, and they flew together in the London-Melbourne Centenary Air Race. Later, he flew in Australia for Ansetts and Airlines of Australia; and in 1938 he joined Qantas as first officer of a flying-boat running between Singa pore and Sydney. He joined the RAAF after the outbreak of war, and his not able performances against the Japanese soon brought him the rank of Squadron- Leader,
Ray Parer and Godfrey Hemsworth, a “snap shot” in New Guinea in 1934, before they left for England to take part in the London- Melbourne Centenary Air Race.