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Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 April 1943Vol. XIII, No. 9

Two Sons Killed

p. 42 · Read in the full issue

The cruelty of war is shown in the case of Mr. and Mrs. Stuartson C. Meth ven, of Hilton Grove, Belgrave, Victoria —he was in the Fiji and Gilbert and Ellice Administrative Services, between 1911 and 1934, and he is a Great War I veteran. Their son, Captain J. ven, of the AIF, who was born on "Ocean Island in 1918, was killed in action in Egypt last July. Now comes word that their eldest son, Flight-Sergeant S. C.

Methven, RAAF, was killed in action over Germany on January 23. 1943.