To Re-Form

New Guinea Returned Soldiers Start All Over Again

THE New Guinea Returned Soldiers’

Association, which lost all its records and many of its members when the Japanese invaded Rabaul last January, is to be re-formed at a meeting to be held in Sydney this month. The prime mover in the decision to bring the organisation into being again is Mr. A. J.

Gaskin, of the New Guinea public ser vice, who is at present in the office of the External Territories Department, Australia House, Carrington Street, Sydney.

Of the nine men who constituted the executive of the Association last January six are missing, and most of the six are believed to be prisoners of war. The six are: “Nobby” Clark, Jack Edwards. Bob Kennedy, Allan Whiteman, Jack Alber ton and Jack Barrie. The three mem bers of the executive who escaped are: A. J. Gaskin, T. H. Targett, Dr. E. T.

Brennan.

The new organisation will include, of course, not only veterans of World War I, but also returned soldiers of World War 11.