Missing

Roll Of Honour

(It is hoped to assemble, here, the names or men, former residents of the Pacific Territories, which appear in British and French casualty lists, or in lists of honours awarded. We should be grateful if relations and friends would send us details.)

Flying-Officer Moresby Gofton, of the R.AJP., son of Mrs. F. S, Stewart, of Wau, New Guinea. Reported missing, 17/5/1940. Now believed killed.

Flying-Officer K. J. A. Johnstone, of the R.A.F., who was born in Suva in 1915. Reported missing, 1/5/1940. His mother was a daughter of the late Mr.

H. Thiele, for many years a member of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co.’s staff in Fiji.

Flight-Lieutenant G. J. I. Clarke, of the RAAF, serving overseas, formerly Assistant Flight Superintendent of Car penter Airways, New Guinea. Reported missing 25/9/1940.

Wounded

Stanley Higgs, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Gordon Higgs, of W. R. Carpenter and Co., Ltd., well-known in New Guinea.

Member of an English Lancers regiment, wounded during evacuation from Dun kirk, May, 1940.

Sir Walter Carpenter, head of the group of Carpenter companies, left Sydney on another business visit to the United States, at the end of November.

Mr. Donald Waugh, who for over 20 years was one of the best known and most highly respected District Officers in New Guinea, and who retired a few months ago to make his home in Sydney, died on December 2, after a lengthy ill ness, at the age of 65. Mr. Waugh entered the British Army at an early age, and saw service in India and South Africa. He was in Northern Queensland, in 1914, and he immediately joined the Australian forces. He was sent with the Australian expeditionary force to New Guinea, and given a commission; and administrative duties in New Guinea subsequently became his life’s work. He leaves behind him a widow and four children—two of them sons who have enlisted in the Australian forces for service overseas.