N. Guinea `Patrol Officer
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FLYING OFFICER JAMES HYDE, who was a patrol officer in the New Guinea Administration, serving in New Ireland and in the Sepik Dis trict, on the NG mainland, before he went to England to join the Royal Air Force, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was one of a small band of bomber pilots who carried out daring and successful raids on Heligoland Bight, in the North Sea, a few months ago. It is believed that the award is the first honour conferred this war on a man from the Pacific Islands. Courage and quick-thinking have always been traits in Hyde’s character—when he was a schoolboy in Victoria in 1928 he was presented with a medallion for saving the life of a young boy by dragging him from under the wheels of a car. —“Melbourne Herald” Photo.