Fighting French
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Casualties in Libya Battle
From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, July 21.
rE official list of casualties in the Bir Hakheim (Libya) battle, of New Caledonian and New Hebridean volunteers of the Bataillon du Pacifique is as follows: —
Killed In Action
Lieut.-Colonel Felix Broche.
Marcel Kollen.
Francois Masson.
Pierre Charpentier.
Missing
Andre Petre. —. Roudeillac.
Henri Payonne. —. Geller.
Victor Dervaux. —. Moutry.
Eugene Pene. Rene Letocart.
Reginald Boulanger. Robert Blum.
J. P. Gouzenes. Eugene Pognon.
Camille Mercier. Louis Anger.
Georges Kabar.
Wounded
—. Asmus. Jean Brial.
Henri Berthelin. Rene Aufant.
Alex Winchester.
Berbere (alias Aresky).
This list is additional to the half-dozen casualties suffered by New Caledonians in previous desert fighting.
The engagement was announced a short time ago of Miss Marie Lorraine Shield, of Suva, Fiji, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Shield, of Seaton Park, South Australia, to Corporal Kenneth David HPanckhurst, of Hastings, New Zealand, who is serving with the RNZAF in Fiji.
Mr. A. H. Nicholls, Chief of the Con dominium Customs Service, died suddenly at Port Vila on March 14. Mr. Nicholls was an unusually active man, and had discharged his official duties with his usual vigour up to the time of his death.