MPs to hear report
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MPs to hear report
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Report stating that announcement had not been made as government wished to inform relatives of officers shot after escape from prisoner or war camp. Mentions Flying Officer G W Walenn.
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SValentineJRM1251404v10110
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M.P.s to hear report
Replying to questions Mr. Eden said the information was received four days ago and a telegram was sent to the Protecting Power the next day. No announcement was made then, because the Government wished the relatives to be informed and wanted, if possible, to get information from the Protecting Power.
When he received the report he would read it to the House.
A full list of the shot officers, circulated by the Air Ministry yesterday afternoon, appears on the Back Page.
Flying Officer G.W. Walenn, one of the victims, was the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Walenn, of Hill Rise, London, N.W.
A clerk in the Midland Bank’s Finchley Road branch, he started the Midland Bank Flying Club in 1938. He learned to be a week-end pilot, was given six months’ leave by the bank and trained as a pilot-instructor, later teaching other members of the club to become pilots.
He was shot down over Rotterdam.
Replying to questions Mr. Eden said the information was received four days ago and a telegram was sent to the Protecting Power the next day. No announcement was made then, because the Government wished the relatives to be informed and wanted, if possible, to get information from the Protecting Power.
When he received the report he would read it to the House.
A full list of the shot officers, circulated by the Air Ministry yesterday afternoon, appears on the Back Page.
Flying Officer G.W. Walenn, one of the victims, was the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Walenn, of Hill Rise, London, N.W.
A clerk in the Midland Bank’s Finchley Road branch, he started the Midland Bank Flying Club in 1938. He learned to be a week-end pilot, was given six months’ leave by the bank and trained as a pilot-instructor, later teaching other members of the club to become pilots.
He was shot down over Rotterdam.
Citation
“MPs to hear report,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 30, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/22095.
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