Islands Casualties
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THE following casualties have been reported recently:— Previously Reported Missing—Now Reported Prisoner of War NGXIS7 W/O I, A. N. Gray, Ordnance, Rabaul.
Prisoner of War Major N. B. Watch, NGVR. (No num ber or address given.) Removed From Seriously 111 List NG2IIO Rflmn. T. A. Keenan, Infantry. (Address not given.) Transferred From Dangerously 111 to Seriously 111 List NX65696 Lieut. R. Stephens, Engineers, Ramu, New Guinea.
J. C. Archer POW in Japan Mrs. Nina Archer received word through the Red Cross, Geneva, on February 22, that her husband, Lieut. J. C. Archer, is a prisoner of war in Japan. It will be remembered that Lieutenant Archer was a member of the NGVR and after the Japanese occupation of Rabaul he was reported to have been murdered.
He writes from a POW camp, “Leutsiji,” on an island south of the Japanese mainland, and about 22 hours’ journey from Yokohama. He said he was well treated and in good health; and he is attending lectures in Spanish. His letter was dated August 22, 1942, and he enclosed a small but good picture of him self taken in Japan.