Sq/Lr. L. C. Shoppee

Now in Hospital in Victoria

ONE of New Guinea’s best-known fly ing men, Squadron-Leader L. C.

Shoppee, DSC, is safe in Australia (in Ward 3a, No. 6 RAAF Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria), after being liber ated from the Japs in the Netherlands Indies.

Early in World War 11, Mr. Shoppee rejoined the RAF, and gave distinguished service in various theatres. He was in Java when the Allies capitulated in March, 1942; and he spent the interven ing months in attempting to escape. He nearly succeeded, but the Japs caught him on May 10, 1942, on the south coast of Java.

He spent the next three years POW in Java; and he underwent a major opera tion in Batavia last September. He then was flown to a hospital in Singapore, and he was taken to Victoria, in a hos pital ship, in November. He expects to be there for some considerable time.