Roll Of Honour
pp. 22-23 · Read in the full issue
(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 friendj would send us details.)
Killed
Pilo xh°® cer Len BAYL ISS, flying instructor in the RAAF, formerly of Rabaul. New Guinea.
Killed in Sydney, 18/11/1940, when he fell from a trainer aircraft, in flight, without a para chute.
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, 1941. «fl^ ht ; LieUtenant G - J - L 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 RAP 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 RAP 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 AIF (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.
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.
Gnr. A. H. ROSS, AIF artillery, of Rabaul, TNG. Reported missing—believed prisoner of war, 28/9/1941.
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.
Pte. FRED. SWAN, NZ Army Medical Corps, formerly of Apia, Western Samoa. Reported in August, 1941, “missing after Battle of Crete”.
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 August, 1941, he had been in valided 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 AIF, July, 1941.
A/Cpl. N. K. SAWYER, AIF infantry, of Rabaul, TNG. Reported wounded in action, 22/7/1941.
Pte. Lance STAMPER, AIF, formerly school master at Wau, New Guinea. Reported wounded in action, August, 1941.
Pte. H. G. TURNER, AIF, of Samarai, Eastern Papua, wounded in action at Bardia (Libya), January, 1941.
Pte. F. D. TWISS, ALP infantry, of New Guinea. Reported wounded in action, August, 1941.
Prisoners Of War
A/Cpl. Peter W. BOSGARD, AIF infantry, formerly of the Lands Department, Port Moresby, Papua. Reported prisoner of war at Solmona, Abruzzi, Italy, 29/6/1941.
Pte. W. GOSSNER, AIF infantry, of Port Moresby, Papua. Reported prisoner of war, Abruzzi, Italy, 6/7/1941.
Gnr. A. L. B. KING, AIF artillery, of Rabaul, TNG. Reported prisoner of war, 29/7/1941.
A/Cpl. John H. LONERGAN, AIF, Supply and Transport, of New Guinea. Reported prisoner of war at Corinthia, Italy, 8/7/1941.
Decorations
Lieut. Colin HILL, RANK, of the Australian destroyer, “Waterhen”, formerly second officer on 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 Namatanai 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”.
Sgt. Geoffrey MOORE, of the NZ RAF, for merly engineer on the NG inter-island vessel “Maiwara” and on the trans-Pacific liner “Aorangi”. Awarded the Distinguished Plying Medal for “shooting down an enemy fighter and driving off two others, and having displayed great courage and a high standard of gunnery at all times”.