Commander Dyson

Hore-Lacy

LETTERS from abroad show that Commander Dyson Hore-Lacy, lately of Garua and Ulatawa plantations, in New Guinea, was in charge of one of the ships which carried the Anglo- American forces to North Africa, in November last.

“The convoy from the United Kingdom was one of the greatest that ever sailed,’’ says Commander Hore-Lacy, “and the fact that only one ship was torpedoed and everyone was landed safely was an extraordinary performance.

“I lost my ship. She was dive-bombed off the North African coast; but we had done our job, and she was practically empty. We expected to run into a spot of blast, being on the most easterly land ing of all, and we certainly got it; but our casualties were not as high as might have been expected. We saved most of our guns and some of our equipment, and I did not leave the ship until about three hours after the bombs hit us.”

Commander Hore-Lacy, after this in cident, returned to Britain, and then went across to the United States, where he took charge of a new” 1 ship.