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.) Killed in Action A/Bdr. N. W. Bertwistle, NGXS3, artil lery, of Rabaul, New Guinea. Killed in action, April, 1941.

Died from Wounds

Sergeant-Pilot Peter Clarkson Wise, son of Mr. W. Wise, OBE, Director of Public Works in Fiji. Wounded by anti aircraft gunfire during bomber raid over Germany, January, 1941. Returned with crew safely to aerodrome, died two days later.

Died from Illness

Pte. Clarence A. Hutton, VXB3IO, form erly of Edie Creek, New Guinea. Died from illness, April, 1941.

Missing

Flying-Officer Moresby Gofton, of the R.A.F., 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 CSR 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.

L/Bdr. K. S. Sheekey, NGXSI, artillery, formerly of the Central Administration staff at Rabaul, New Guinea. Reported missing, 12/5/1941.

A/Sgt. A. A. S. Cotman, PXB, infan try, of Abau, Papua. Reported missing— believed prisoner of war, 5/5/1941.

A/Cpl. P. W. Bosgard, PX9, infantry, of Papua. Reported missing—believed pri soner of war, 5/5/41.

Pte. W. Gossner, QXIO, infantry, of Port Moresby, Papua. Reported miss ing—believed prisoner of war, 7/5/1941.

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.

Private H. G. Turner, of Samarai, Eastern Papua, wounded in action in Western Desert, Egypt, January, 1941.

Cpl. R. McKerlie, of Samarai, Papua (formerly a resident for 20 years in the Solomons) wounded by bomb explosion, April, 1941. It was reported that his eyesight had been impaired.

Mr. Fred. Isom, one of the oldest members of the Melanesian Mission —he is the Mission’s printer at Hautabu, Guadalcanar Island, in the Solomons Group—has been in Australia for several months on furlough, during which period he spent a short time in Sydney Hos pital. He has now completely recovered and, with his wife, joined a BP steamer which sailed from Sydney in mid-May.