June Constance Howden
I whānau mai i te 2 Jul 1918 - I mate atu i te 22 May 2007
- Nama Hōia
- W8560 AWMM
- W2084 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
- June Constance Gummer AWMM
- Judy AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Air Force AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW2 Third Officer AWMM
- Pakanga
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- June Constance AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Howden AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
- June Constance Gummer AWMM
- Judy AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- W8560 AWMM
- W2084 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Female AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 2 Jul 1918 Births, Deaths and Marriages
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- WW2 Dr Howden (father), Pukekohe, New Zealand AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
- Married/Post WWII AWMM
Robert William Gummer AWMM - Single/WWII AWMM
- Married/Post WWII AWMM
Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Air Force AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- W8560 AWMM
- W2084 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
- Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) AWMM
Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
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Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- WW2 1941 Obituary
Age 23 AWMM
Home Duties/Civilian Obituary - Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- WW2 Pilot AWMM Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) AWMM
- On 11 October 1943, sailed on the Australia Star from Wellington, via the Panama Canal to Liverpool. Arrived on 27 November 1943.Public - Libvol - Researcher - 4 October 2016 - Martyn E W, For Your Tomorrow
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
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Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW2 12 Aug 1945 AWMM Third Officer AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- June “Judy” Constance Howden (W8560; W2084), later June Gummer, was born in Pukekohe on 2 July 1918. She gained her pilot’s licence as a teenager after winning a New Zealand Herald flying scholarship while at Waikato Diocesan School for Girls. Her classmates called her “Aeroplane Howden”.
She enlisted in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in 1941 and was posted to No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School at Woodbourne as an Airwoman of the Watch. In October 1943 she travelled to England and joined the Air Transport Auxiliary, ferrying new, repaired and operational aircraft between factories and Royal Air Force stations across Britain.
June flew 22 different types of aircraft and delivered hundreds of planes, most notably Spitfires. Although her role was non-combatant, it carried real risk, particularly in poor weather. She returned to New Zealand in January 1946.
In 1954 she married Robert William Gummer (NZ425251), a Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot who had flown in the Pacific during the war. He later became a pioneer of aerial topdressing in the King Country, helping test the prototype Fletcher aircraft that would transform New Zealand farming. June continued flying in civilian life and, with Robert, farmed near Te Kuiti, where they raised a son and twin daughters, before retiring to Tutukaka.
June Gummer died on 22 May 2007, aged 88, and is remembered as one of New Zealand’s pioneering wartime women aviators (Profile written for “A Flight to Remember”, an Anzac Day 2026 initiative by Online Cenotaph and Air New Zealand). AWMM
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 22 May 2007 Obituary
Age 88 AWMM - Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
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- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
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- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
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- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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Tangata Ope Tauā
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Obituary:NZ Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10444535
Sources Used - ATA Personnel Archives
https://archive.atamuseum.org/personnel.php
Further Reference - 'Obituary, June Gummer' New Zealand Herald, 9 June 2007
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/iobituaryi-june-gummer/C4HI7GEFXT6A3I6WTKG4UNOEVU/
Further Reference - Fortune, Gabrielle. 'ATA-girl': The Fab Five of New Zealand Aviation. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira. First published: 31 March 2021.
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/anzac-2021/attagirls
Further Reference - http://www.haddenhamairfieldhistory.co.uk/junegummer.htmPublic - Stoney - Researcher - 12 May 2018 - ATA Association Maidenhead
- Obituary:NZ Herald
- Ngā tuhinga
- Service Women Project: Sponsorship to research this record was kindly provided by the Auckland Returned Services Association, Returned Servicewomen's Branch; Marjorie Traill, Dorothy Grant, Daphne Shaw and Margaret Woollett.
- Mackenzie, B. (1982). The WAAF book : a scrapbook of wartime memories. Christchurch, N.Z.: Whitcoulls Publishers.
pp.88-91 - Strengths, WAAF [Women's Auxiliary Air Force], Returns - December 1942 - February 1950. Archives New Zealand (R21072930)
- This record was part of “A Flight to Remember”, an Anzac Day 2026 commemorative partnership between Online Cenotaph and Air New Zealand, where service stories were shared onboard a dawn flight from Auckland to Sydney.
- Martyn, E W. For Your Tomorrow, Vol 3, p629, ref [175]Public - Libvol - Researcher - 4 October 2016 - As above
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