Death of Suva Boy While on

Active Service

WORD was received in Suva, in Febru ary, of the death of Lieutenant Har rowby Ryder, son of Mrs. S. Nelson, of Suva, and an old boy of the Suva Boys’ Grammar School. He was 23 years old.

He went to the Middle East with the 9th Division of the AIF, celebrating his 21st birthday overseas. When he came back to Australia with the Division he fought in New Guinea and in 1943 was wounded. He met his death as the result of an accident while on active service in the Pacific.

Flight-Lieutenant R. Wallace, a mem ber of the Fiji RAF contingent, is now flying Liberators in Burma.