Papuan Officials in Island Forces
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Island Forces
FOLLOWING is a list of members of the Papuan Public Service who have thrown aside the ledger and pen to shoulder a gun, and are now serv ing in the Island forces. Many of them in the past have done invaluable work for the late Administration in important patrols and know the country and the natives, as well as being conversant with many dialects:— F. W. G. Andersen. M. J. Healy.
Kevin Atkinson. F. B. Lea.
Leo Austen, A. J. May.
L. E. Austen. J. B. McKenna.
H. F. Bitmead. D. T. McLaughlan.
P. F. Brewer. A. J. Murison.
J. F. Brown. W. S. Nicholas.
G. F. X. Brown. D. M. O’Connor.
Paul Burns. Les. J. O’Malley.
Claude Champion, Louis J. O’Malley.
F. A. Champion. M. C. W. Rich.
I. F. Champion. B. M. Ritchie.
C. B. Davidson. D. M. Rutledge.
A. L. A. de Groen. W. H. H. Thompson.
A. L. Ethell. A. T. Timperly.
B. W. Faithorn. G. Toogood.
J. R. Foldi. G. H. Vernon.
J. M. Frame. J. N. Walshe.
T. Grahamslaw. A. R. Wardrop.
W. E. Graham. E. N. Whitehouse.
Trainee George Hansen, of the first Fiji recruits for the RAF, has completed his elementary flying training in Rho desia, South Africa, and has been awarded his wings as a bomber pilot, with commissioned rank. Before the war, he was on the staff of the Lands, Mines and Survey Department, having joined the Fiji Civil Service as a clerk in 1930.