Roll Of Honour

Killed

Pilot-Officer Len BAYLISS, flying instructor in the RAAF, formerly of Rabaul, New Guinea.

Killed in Sydney, 18/11/1940, when he fell from a trainer aircraft, at a great height, without a parachute.

A/Bdr. Neville W. BERTWISTLE, AIF artillery (tank unit), formerly a clerk on the staff of W. R. Carpenter and Co., Ltd., of Rabaul, New Guinea. Killed in action, April, IS'4l.

Flight-Lieutenant G. J. I. CLARKE, of the RAAF, formerly Assistant Flight Superintendent of Carpenter Airways, New Guinea. Reported missing after operations off Dakar (French West Africa), while attached to HMAS “Australia”, 25/9/1940 —now presumed killed.

Pte. Felix CRAIG, AIF, formerly of accounts department, Australasian Petroleum Co., Port Moresby, Papua. Reported killed, June, 1941.

Captain Kenneth GARDEN, of the RAF Ferry Command, formerly chief pilot of Guinea Air ways, Ltd., in New Guinea. Killed in air accident, 2/9/1941, when bomber, which he had flown across Atlantic from USA, crashed near west coast of Britain.

Flying-Officer Moresby GOFTON, of the RAF, son of Mrs. F, S. Stewart, of Wau, New Guinea.

Reported missing, 17/5/1940 —now presumed killed.

Flying-Officer K. J. A. JOHNSTONE, of the RAF, who was born in Suva, Fiji, In 1915. Re ported missing, 1/5/1940 —now presumed killed.

Cpl. Alex, C. SCOTT, AIF, formerly manager at Kieta, TNG. for Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd.

Killed in action in the Middle East, 19/6/1941.

Died From Wounds

Pte. Ernest HENRY, AIF, formerly of the Rabaul (NG) staff of Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd. Died from wounds received during Battle of Crete, 1/6/1941.

Pte. Walter PEARSON, of first NG Quota of AEP (infantry). Died from wounds received in action, 24/6/1941.

A/Bdr. W. R. SCOTT, AIF, of New Guinea.

Died from wounds, July, 1941.

Sergeant-Pilot Peter Clarkson WISE, of the RAF, son of Mr. W. Wise, OBE, Director of Public Works, Fiji. Died from wounds received during bombing raid over Germany, January, 1941.

Died From Illness

Pte. Clarence A, HUTTON, AIF, formerly of Edie Creek, New Guinea. Died from illness, April, 1941.

Missing

A/Sgt. A. A. S. COTMAN, AIF infantry, of Abau, Papua. Reported missing—believed prisoner of war, 5/5/1941.

A recent “snapshot” of Mr. W. R. (“Wally”) Scott, of New Guinea, whose death overseas from wounds received while on active service with the AIF was reported last month. This photograph was taken when Scott was working at the Kupei mine, on Bougainville Island, TNG.

Pte. L. F. McCarthy, AIF infantry, of Rabaul, TNG. Reported “wounded in action and missing —believed prisoner of war”, 15/7/1941.

Alex. McKAY. of the RAAF, formerly engineer at the Colonial Sugar Refining Co.’s mill, Penang, Fiji. Reported missing, August, 1941.

Pte. John O. SMITH, of the NZ Forces, son of Captain Smith, of “Tui Kauvaro”, and Mrs.

Smith, of Suva, Fiji. Reported missing, 29/5/1941, during Greek campaign.

Wounded

Pte. V. BLANCO, AIF infantry, of Thursday Island. Reported wounded in action, 8/7/1941.

L/Cpl. J. P. BLENCOWE, AIF infantry, of Rabaul, TNG. Reported wounded in action, 15/7/1941.

Pte. Thomas BYERS, AIF infantry, of Thurs day Island. Reported wounded in action, May, 1941.

Sgt. C. HENDRICK, AIF infantry, of Rabaul, TNG. Reported wounded in action, 15/7/1941.

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 British evacuation from Dunkirk (France), May, 1940.

Lieut. L. T. HURRELL, AIF infantry, of Rabaul, TNG. Reported “wounded in action, remaining on duty”, 29/7/1941.

Cpl. W. H. LANNEN, AIP artillery, of Rabaul, New Guinea. Reported “wounded in action — on seriously ill list, 30/6/1941; removed from seriously ill list, 25/7/1941”.

Gnr. E. G. LOBAN, AIF artillery, of Thursday Island, wounded during Greek campaign, May, 1941. Reported July, 1941, he being invalided home after having his left forearm amputated.

Capt. Edward Tiwi LOVE, NZ Maori Battalion, husband of Mrs. Takau Rio Love, Ariki-nui of Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Reported missing dur ing Greek campaign, 27/5/1941; later, 22/6/1941, reported “wounded and safe”.

Cpl. R. McKERLIE, AIF, of Yandina, BSI, wounded in face by bomb explosion, April, 1941.

A/Sgt. Alastair MACLEAN, AIF infantry, of Rabaul, New Guinea. Reported wounded in action, in Libya, 30/6/1941.

S/Sgt. Graham B. MIRFIELD, AIF engineers, of Rabaul, New Guinea. Reported wounded in action, 16/7/1941.

Pte. L. G. REECE, of Bulolo, New Guinea. Re ported wounded in action with AIP, July, 1941.

A/Cpl. N. K. SAWYER, AIF infantry, of Rabaul, TNG. Reported wounded in action, 22/7/1941.

Pte. L. STAMPER, formerly schoolmaster at Wau, New Guinea. Reported wounded in action, August, 1941.

Private H. G. TURNER, of Samarai, Eastern Papua, wounded in action with AIF at Bardia, in Libya, January, 1941.

Prisoners Of War

A/Cpl. Peter W. BOSGARD, AIF Infantry, formerly of the Lands Department, Port Moresby, Papua. Reported missing, 5/5/1941; reported prisoner of war at Solmona, Abruzzl, Italy, 29/6/1941.

Pte. W. GOSSNER, AIF infantry, of Port Moresby, Papua. Reported missing, 7/6/1941; reported prisoner of war, Abruzzi, Italy, 6/7/1941.

Gnr. A. L. B. KING, AIF artillery, of Rabaul, TNG. Reported , missing, 16/6/1941; reported prisoner of war, 29/7/1941.

A/Cpl. John H. LONERGAN, AIF, Supply and Transport, of New Guinea. Reported missing during Greek campaign, 5/6/1941; reported prisoner of war at Corinthia, Italy, 8/7/1941.

Decorations

Lieut. Colin HILL, RANR, of the Australian destroyer, “Waterhen”, formerly second officer bn the trans-Pacific liner “Niagara”. Made a member of the Order of the British Empire for salvaging a burning oil tanker near Suda Bay, Crete.

Flying-Officer James R. HYDE, of the RAF, formerly a patrol officer in Namatanal and Sepik Districts, TNG. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bombing raids on Heligoland Bight, in the North Sea.

Lieutenant-Commander A. W. R. McNICOLL, RAN, son of Sir Ramsay McNicoll, Adminis trator of New Guinea, and Lady McNicoll.

Awarded the George Medal “for gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty”. (It is hoped to assemble, here, the names of men, former residents of the Pacific Territories, which appear in British and Free French casualty lists, or in lists of honours awarded.

We should be grateful if relations and friends would send us details.)

Captain Ken. Garden

CAPTAIN Kenneth Garden, of the Royal Air Force, who was well known in Papua and New Guinea, was killed in an air crash on the west coast of Britain, early in September.

Only 25, he was an outstanding flier.

He was attached to the RAF Perry Command, flying US-manufactured Lib erator bombers to Britain and the plane which crashed had just completed an Atlantic crossing. Six passengers and the crew of four were killed.

Garden joined the Ward Williams gold-seeking expedition in Western Papua and New Guinea in 1936. Later, he flew with Guinea Airways Ltd., becoming their chief pilot. In 1939, he resigned to join Imperial Airways.

Mr. George A. Towson, who died at Savu Savu, Fiji, recently, aged 73, was one of the Colony’s early pioneers. He was born at Levuka, his parents having gone to the Colony when the famous Polynesian Company was formed. After he was educated in Australia, Mr. Tow son returned to Fiji, and, as a partner in the firm of Towson Bros., he engaged m cotton planting on Savu Savu Bay, Later, he became interested in coconut and cocoa cultivation. In recent years, r^ 1 Towson k ac * been in indifferent health.