Roland Desmond Ernest Betley
I whānau mai i te 2 Aug 1921 - I mate atu i te 16 Jun 1944
- Nama Hōia
- NZ421495 AWMM
- WWII 421495 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Air Force AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- Flight Sergeant/Military AWMM Royal Air Force, No. 75 (NZ) Squadron AWMM
- Pakanga
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Roland Desmond Ernest AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Betley AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Nama Hōia
- NZ421495 AWMM
- WWII 421495 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 2 Aug 1921 RNZAF Biographies (R17845607)
- Rā i whānau mai ai
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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
- Mrs B.I. Betley (wife), 6 Wellesley Street, Fielding, New Zealand AWMM
- WW2 Wife: Mrs B. I. M. Betley, 6 Wellesley Street, Feilding AWMM
- WW2 Parents: Mr & Mrs J. E. Betley of Feilding AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
- Married/WWII AWMM
- Unknown AWMM Married AWMM
Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
- Europe (Air) AWMM
- Europe (Air) AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Air Force AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- NZ421495 AWMM
- WWII 421495 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
- British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, No. 10 Service Flying Training School, Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada AWMM
Course 1: Class 77. Graduation Date: 9/07/1943. AWMM - Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
- Royal Air Force, No. 75 (NZ) Squadron 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
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- 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 Vessel was Matsonia AWMM Royal New Zealand Air Force AWMM
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
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Killed on air operations AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- Flight Sergeant/Military AWMM
Royal Air Force, No. 75 (NZ) Squadron AWMM - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Roland Betley was the son of John Ernest Betley and of Amy Violet Betley (nee Shaw), of Hastings, Hawkes Bay; husband of Barbara Isobel May Betley, of Oroua Downs, Wellington.
Attended Lytton Street School, Fielding and Palmerston North Technical School (Source: RNZAF Biographies (R17845607))
486 hours as Pilot (Source: RNZAF Biographies (R17845607)) AWMM
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 16 Jun 1944 AWMM
Age 22 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
- Killed in Action AWMM
- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
- Claim by Oblt Peter Ehrhardt 9/NJG5 Cambrai/Lille/Valenciennes area: 2,000m at 00:52.
Crashed Rieux-en-Cambresis (Nord) 9km ENE of Cambrai.Public - John - 5 April 2021 - Nachtjagd Combat Archives 1944 Part 3 - Theo Boiten - Urupā
- Rieux Communal Cemetery, Nord, France AWMM Coll. grave 8-10. AWMM
- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
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- Ingoa maumaharatanga
- Memorial on tombstone of Hilton BetleyPublic - Allan - Researcher - 27 December 2018 - Manawatu District Council cemetery records
- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
- Block 3 Row 6 Plot 640Public - Allan - Researcher - 27 December 2018 - Manawatu District Council cemetery records
Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- 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 - Air Force casualties. Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 28, 2 August 1944, Page 6
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19440802.2.84.2&srpos
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2776731
Sources Used - RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Biographies of Deceased Personnel 1939 - 1945 (Bound Volumes) - Ab - B. Archives New Zealand (R17845607).
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R17845607
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 (R17845747)
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R17845747
Sources Used
- Papers Past. Digital New Zealand Newspapers.
- Ngā tuhinga
- The Weekly News
The Weekly News 1944 - The Evening Post
- Martyn, E. (1998-2008). For Your Tomorrow (Vols. 1-3). Christchurch, N.Z.: Volplane Press.
- This record is a work in progress and was partially compiled from the “Database of New Zealand Airmen who took part in Advanced Air Training in Canada during WW2”. Researched by Ivan and Lorna Lindsey of Tauranga. N.Z. 2003 – 2012. Reproduced with permission.
- RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Biographies of Deceased Personnel 1939 - 1945 (Bound Volumes) - Ab - B. Archives New Zealand (R17845607) - Former archives reference: AIR118
- List of RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Personnel - List of Personnel Killed or Missing in Various Theatres, 1940 - 1945. [Missing - But Presumed Dead on Lapse of Time - Officers, Airmen]. Archives New Zealand (R17845743)
- 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. [List of Missing]. Archives New Zealand (R17845747)
- The Weekly News
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