Dr. Lindsay Isaac In
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Suva
IT is reported that Dr. Lindsay Isaac, a well-known member of the medical staff of the Gilbert and Ellice Is lands Colony, has arrived in Suva from the Japanese-occupied Gilberts. The re
port does not say how he escaped. He was in Tarawa early in January, as is proved by a letter just received from him, enclosed in an envelope post marked January 2.
The front of the en velope is photo graphically repro duced below it probably will interest stamp-collectors. Dr.
Isaac’s mother is a resident of Sydney.
Dr. Isaac joined the Western Pacific High Commission
Medical Service in 1938. He was posted first to Levuka (Fiji) as Medical Officer, then Nadroga; and, later was AMO at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva. In September, 1940, he was trans ferred to Funafuti, G. and E. Colony, as Acting Senior Medical Officer.
Reproduction of envelope sent from Dr. Isaac, in the G. & E. Group, to PIM”. The rubber stamp inscription on the left (faint owing to the technical difficulties of block-making) reads: “Launch mail from Territory pro-tem enemy occupied, V ! V.”
Dr. Isaac