Rabaul Men In Jap Prison

Camp

rERE recently was published, in the “POW, Bulletin,” in Sydney, a photo graph of a group of Australians in the Sentsuji Prisoners of War Camp, in Japan; and three Rabaul men—Lieut. C.

G Kilner, Lieut. Clarrie Archer and Major (Dr.) N. B. Watch—are there clearly recognisable. They appear to be in good health.

Mrs. Geoff Kilner has received a num ber of letters from her husband, written in that camp. In a letter which was re ceived in Sydney in July, 1943, Lieut.

Kilner said: “The following Rabaul prisoners of war were well, when I saw them last: Spensley; Garth Walker; Jack Evans; Evan Evans; Philpott; Goodwin; Bird; Haslam; Beckett; Lionel Saunders; lan Mac Lean; Mac Ewan; Coote; Harold Page; Gerald Hogan; Field; Townsend; Harry Adams; Frank Saunders; Mac Lean, Snr.”

In a letter received in Sydney in January, 1945, Lieut. Kilner mentioned another Rabaul man: “Jack Barrie (Rabaul Electricity) was not in the prison camp with the others, and I did not see him during the action. There is no word of him at all.” (Editorial Note: From apparently authentic reports received from several sources, it is believed that Barry met his death at Tol, New Britain, in the Japanese massacre there in the early stages of the

enemy occupation of the Gazelle Penin sula in 1942. Kilner and Archer were also reported victims of the Tol massacre, but later were reported POW in Japan.)