Jack Milton Cave

Forenames

Jack Milton AWMM

Surname

Cave AWMM

Service number

43700 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

24 Sept 1919 RNZAF Biographies (R17845608)

Date of birth

b. 1919

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Place of birth

NZ

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Birth notes

Son of Milton Knight Cave and Stella May Cave, of Whakatane

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Address before enlistment

Gisborne, then shifted to Wellington prior to joining the RNZAF

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Next of kin

• Mr M.K. Cave (father), Rotorua Line, Tirau, Waikato, New Zealand AWMM
• WW2 Parents: Mr. & Mrs. M. K. Cave of Tirau, Rotorua Line AWMM

Relationship status

• Single/WWII AWMM
• Pre 1940 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Campaign

Europe (Air) AWMM

Armed force / branch

Air Force AWMM

Service number

43700 AWMM

Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Royal Air Force, No. 101 Squadron AWMM

Embarkation details

WW2 Royal Air Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Killed on air operations AWMM

Last rank

• Pilot Officer AWMM
• Bomber Command AWMM Royal Air Force, No. 101 Squadron AWMM

Jack Cave was the son of Milton Knight Cave and Stella May Cave, of Whakatane, New Zealand.

Short Service Commission with RAF 1940

Two sons, brothers Jack Milton Cave (RAF 43700) and Vernon Grenville Cave (NZ415059) died in service.

Attended Rawene High School, Dargaville High School (Source: RNZAF Biographies (R17845608)) AWMM

Death

30 Oct 1940 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Waddington (St. Michael) Churchyard, Lincolnshire, England AWMM

Obituary

PILOT-OFFICER CAVE FORMER GISBORNEITE PROMINENT FOOTBALLER Members of the Chief Post Office staff in Gisborne and of the Old Boys' Rugby Football Club have learned with the deepest regret of the death of Pilot-Officer Jack Milton Cave in air operations with the Royal Air Force. He is the first casualty to affect either group, so far as is known, and much sympathy is felt for the parents of the young airman, who lived at Tirau. The late Pilot-Officer Cave was employed in the clerical branch of the Chief Post Office in Gisborne from November, 1935, to March, 1939, during which time he gained outstanding popularity with his fellow-employees. His ability was recognised by departmental authorities when be was transferred to the staff division at head office in Wellington, which he left to join the Royal New Zealand Air Force in September, immediately after the outbreak of the war.
He trained preliminarily in New Zealand before leaving with an early New Zealand group to take up service with the Royal Air Force, and gave promise of developing into a first-class airman, which promise he later fulfilled when he was posted as a pilot.

He will be well remembered as a Rugby footballer who came up through the grades of the Old Boys’ club, earning representative honours in the junior grade, and transferring to the senior grade in the season prior to his departure from Gisborne.

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Memorial name

• Roll of Honour, Tirau District 1939 - 1945, Tirau Museum, Tirau, New Zealand AWMM
• Roll of Honour, Northern Wairoa RSA, Dargaville AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Gisborne First World War Memorial, The Esplanade, Kaiti, Gisborne AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Papers Past. Digital New Zealand Newspapers.
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
  Sources Used
• Papers Past. Digital New Zealand Newspapers.
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
  Sources Used
• NZ Museums: Tirau Museum
  http://www.nzmuseums.co.nz/account/3158
  Further Reference
• Air Operations. Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 109, 4 November 1940, Page 9
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19401104.2.87&srpos
  Further Reference
• CWGC
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2359218/JACK%20MILTON%20CAVE/
  Further Reference
• RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Biographies of Deceased Personnel 1939 - 1945 (Bound Volumes) - Bo - Cl. Archives New Zealand (R17845608)
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R17845608
  Sources Used
• List of RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Personnel - List of Personnel Killed or Missing in Various Theatres, 1940 - 1945. Archives New Zealand (R17845744)
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R17845744
  Sources Used

References

• Martyn, E. (1998-2008). For Your Tomorrow (Vols. 1-3). Christchurch, N.Z.: Volplane Press.
  Martyn, E. (1998-2008). Vol. 1 p. 99; vol. 3 p. 124
• RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] - Historical Items - Battle of Britain Roll of Honour, July - October 1940. Archives New Zealand, Wellington, ADQA 17263 AIR118/109/77e (R17845784)
• RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Biographies of Deceased Personnel 1939 - 1945 (Bound Volumes) - Bo - Cl. Archives New Zealand (R17845608) - Former archives reference: AIR118
• Please note that the 11 volumes of the "RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Biographies of Deceased Personnel 1939-1945" held at Archives NZ (formerly known as AIR118) should be used in conjunction with Errol Martyn's "For Your Tomorrow". FYT reflects detailed examination of all of the AIR118 bios which contain many inaccuracies and omissions.
• List of RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Personnel - List of Personnel Killed or Missing in Various Theatres, 1940 - 1945. [(New Zealanders Attached to R.A.F. [Royal Air Force]) (Officers), (Europe) - Airmen]. Archives New Zealand (R17845744)
• List of RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Personnel - List of Deceased New Zealanders (Formerly) serving with RAF [Royal Air Force]. Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R17845760).
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.