Fiji Airman Missing

Sergeant-Pilot Murray Waldron Bentley, of the RAF, was reported, on January 12, 1943, missing in air operations in the Middle East. He is the second son of Mrs. J. E. Bentley, of Royal Court. Auck land, and a nephew of Mrs. A. Herrick, of Suva. He was born at Levuka, Fiji, and educated in Auckland, NZ. He enlisted in the New Zealand Air Force at 18, gained his wings in New Zealand, and left for England in 1942. He was posted to Hurricanes, and then to a Spit fire squadron, and finally to Kittyhawks.

His elder brother, Robert Waldron Bent ley, is a navigator in a bomber squadron in England.