Young N. Guinea Man

In Famous Eleven

AUSTRALIAN newspapers, about May 20, carried a remarkable and dra matic story of how 11 Australian soldiers, who had been cut off in Greece, succeeded in evading the enemy, getting hold of a small boat and somehow or other navigating it across the Aegean Sea to Turkey. They had incredible adventures as they dodged enemy aero planes, submarines and infantry near and on the various Aegean Islands; but they beat all the Huns who came after them and reached the coast of Turkey.

They were formally interned in Turkey —but Australian resource and ingenuity probably will find a way out of the pri son camp and back into the AIF.

One of the eleven men who made this remarkable escape is Lance-Corporal R.

C. Lewis, a young man of 22, who was an overseer on Kimadan plantation in New Guinea prior to May 7, 1940, when he arrived in Australia and enlisted. His parents live at Manildra, in NSW, and his brother is on the staff of the Com monwealth Bank in Rabaul.