Roll Of Honour
pp. 20-21 · 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 friends would send us details.)
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 in flight.
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.
Flight-Lieutenant G. J. I. CLARKE, of the RAAF, formerly Assistant Flight Superintendent of Carpenter Airways, New Guinea. Killed in action during operations off Dakar (French West Africa), while attached to HMAS “Aus tralia”, September, 1940.
Flying-Officer Jack R. COATH, of the RNZAP, formerly on the staff of the Bank of New Zealand, in Suva, Fiji. Killed October, 1941, when a training plane' crashed in NZ.
Pte. Felix CRAIG, AIF, formerly of accounts department, Australasian Petroleum Co., Port Moresby, Papua. Reported killed, June, 1941.
Observer V. L. DEARMAN, of the RAAF, for merly overseer and clerk at the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., Rarawai, Fiji. Reported killed in action in the Middle East, October 1941.
Captain Kenneth GARDEN, of the RAP Ferry Command, formerly chief pilot of Guinea Air
ways Ltd., in New Guinea. Killed, 2/9/1941 when the bomber he flew from USA crashed on west coast of Britain.
Flying-Officer Moresby GOFTON. of the RAF rs - F - ?. Stewart, of Wau, New Guinea.’ kilted l6(l miSSmg ’ 17 /5/1940—now presumed Flying-Officer Alan JOHNSTONE, of the RAF who was born in Suva, Fiji, in 1915. Killed in action during bombing raid on Kristiansand Norway, April, 1940.
Pte. L. F. McCarthy, ALP infantry, form erly supercargo on W. R. Carpenter and Co’s mter-island vessel “Mako”, in New Guinea Reported “wounded in action and missing believed prisoner of war”, 15/7/1941; reported killed in action”. 30/10/1941. 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
Pilot John CLARK, of the RAAF, son of Mr, and Mrs. R. L. Clark, of Rabaul, New Guinea.
Reported missing, 1/11/1941, after an operational flight, in the Middle East.
Gnr. Allan H. ROSS, AIF artillery, formerly planter in New Britain, TNG. Reported missing —believed prisoner of war, 28/9/1941.
Pilot James SIMPSON, of the RAF, formerly of Vatukoula, Fiji. Reported missing after air operations over Malta, in the Mediterranean 1/7/1941.
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, ALP infantry, of Thurs day Island. Reported wounded in action. May, 1941.
Pte. John GRANT, AIF infantry, of New Guinea. Reported wounded in neck and thigh, 21/9/1941; later, reported “rejoined unit”.
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. Lloyd T. HURRELL, AIF infantry, of Rabaul, TNG. Reported “wounded in action, remaining on duty”, 29/7/1941.
Cpl, W. H. LANNEN, AIF 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, Invalided home after having his left forearm amputated.
Capt. Edward Tiwl LOVE, NZ Maori Battalion, husband of Mrs. Takau Rio Love, Arlkl-nul 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. Wounded in action, in Libya. 30/6/1941.
S/Sgt. Graham B. MIRFIELD, AIF engineers, of Rabaul, New Guinea. Wounded in action, 16/7/1941.
Pte. L. G. (“Mick”) REECE, of Bulolo, New Guinea. 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. Harold G. TURNER, AIF, of Samaral, Eastern Papua. Wounded in action at Bardia (Libya), January, 1941.
Pte. F. D. TWISS, AIF 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 Sulmona, Italy, 29/6/1941.
A/Sgt. A. A. S. COTMAN, AIF infantry, of Abau, Papua. Reported missing—believed prisoner of war, 5/5/1941; reported later, July, 1941, “wounded in chest and head by shrapnel— taken prisoner”.
Pte. W. GOSSNER, AIF infantry, formerly of the BNG Development Co., Port Moresby, Papua.
Reported prisoner of war, Sulmona, 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.
Observer Alex. McKAY, of the RAAF, formerly of the CSR Co.’s staff, at Penang sugar-mill, Fiji. Reported missing, 27/7/1941; reported prisoner of war in Italy, 26/10/1941.
Pte. John O. SMITH, of the NZ Forces, son of Captain Harry Smith, of “Tui Kauvaro”, and Mrs. Smith, of Suva, Fiji. Reported missing, 29/5/1941, after Battle of Crete; reported prisoner of war, 21/10/1941.
Decorations
Sgt. Henry C. S. COTTON, of the RNZAF. who was born in Samoa (his father was Secre tary of Native Affairs during the NZ military occupation). Awarded the Distinguished Plying Cross.
Lieut. Colin HILL, RANR, of the Australian destroyer, “Waterhen”, formerly second officer on the trans-Pacific liner “Niagara”. Awarded 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 RNZAF, for merly engineer on the NG inter-island vessel “Maiwara” and on the trans-Pacific liner “Aorangi”. Awarded the Distinguished Flying 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”.
Commander Alvord S. ROSENTHAL, RAN, son of Major-General Sir Charles Rosenthal, KCB, CMG, DSO, VD, Administrator of Norfolk Island. Awarded the DSO for service in the Mediterranean.