Transfer Of Usa War Dead
pp. 67-68 · Read in the full issue
SUVA, July 31.
A UNITED STATES ship called in here recently to collect the bodies of American war dead from the local cemetery.
Similar missions are being undertaken in all the Pacific Islands and in Australia and New Zealand. The transfer of these bodies is being made in accordance with an undertaking of the US Government that if the next-of-kin wishes it, the body of any American serviceman will be lifted from foreign soil for re-internment in America.
Lieutenant Harold Turner has rejoined the New Guinea Administration service, after six years with the AIP. He was one of the first Papuans to enlist, and he was wounded in the first action at Bardia (Middle East). He and his wife left on the last “Montoro” and are now at Lae.
He is the son of Mrs. Ethel Turner, now a resident of Elizabeth Bay, Sydney.
The Suva Bowling Club celebrated its 21st anniversary on July 20. A large crowd gathered at the Club’s green in the after noon, when speeches were made by the Chief Justice, Sir Claude Seton, Mr. R. W.
Steward, the 1946 president of the Club, the Club’s first president, Mr. G. Grahame, and by another foundation member, Mr.
J. H. Millett.