Service Men Of

Papua

Early Samarai Enlistments

THE following additions should be made to the list of names, published in January, described as the first 18 men of Papua to enlist in the present war.

Mr. Harold G. Turner, of Samarai, en listed in the AIF some time before some of the names mentioned, and has since been reported injured at Bardia.

The following three men all left Samarai with the same detachment as seven of the men mentioned: — G. E. (“Dusty") Miller, who was em ployed on the staff of BP’s, Misima, joined the RAAF and is believed to have been killed in action over Germany.

D. N. Ashton, who was master of A. H.

Bunting’s ketch, “Lady Jean," joined the RAN and is believed to be back in Aus tralia, after serving overseas.

Wm. Wright, Jnr., of Ahioma, Milne Bay, joined the RAAF as a pilot, and served in the Australian Spitfire Squadron with RAF. He is reported to have been wounded.

Robert H. Bunting, manager of A. H.

Bunting, Ltd., Samarai, journeyed to Moresby with the men mentioned above.

There he caught the next steamer south, joined the AIF and was last heard of in Malaya.

Ron Broadbank, also of Samarai, was another young man who went south a short time later, joined the RAAF, and also has been reported missing.

A correspondent, who kindly supplies the foregoing facts, adds: — Several others enlisted during the latter part of 1940.. Your list is incomplete without the names I have mentioned.

Obviously, the list should have been described as the first 18 men of Port Moresby—not of Papua.