Private L. F. McCarthy
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NOTIFICATION was received in Rabaul at the end of October that Private L. F. McCarthy, AIF infantry (mem ber of the New Guinea quota) was killed in action during the recent fight ing in Syria. Previously, he had been reported “wounded in .action and missing —believed prisoner of war”.
McCarthy was well known in New Guinea as supercargo on W. R. Carpenter & Co.’s inter-island vessels, having served on the “Bopple”, “Coombar”, “Desikoko” and “Mako”, prior to enlistment. He first went to New Guinea in 1936, as an assis tant plantation overseer in the Western Islands group; later he was at Ulaveo plantation and then Pondo.