Daughter hears voice of father killed in action

Margaret Hooton's dad was Pilot Officer Daniel Clifford who was killed in action in 1942 while flying on a Royal Air Force bomber on a mission to Germany. He had left New Zealand before Margaret was born and never got to meet his daughter. Now in her 80s, she has heard her father's voice for the very first time. Last year the former radio journalist and sound archivist, Sarah Johnston, came upon an old disc which contained a voice message recorded by Dan Clifford while he was training in Canada in 1941. He was one of six New Zealanders at the Air Observer School in London, Ontario, training to become air observers and navigators on bomber aircraft. All six of them recorded messages, at a local radio station, to be sent home to New Zealand.