To Norfolk

From Kuwait

Island

After working in the Emirate of Kuwait, in the Persian Gulf, for 16 years, Gordon Duvall, a French born naturalised Britisher, has settled with his wife Kit on a property at Cascade, Norfolk Island.

GORDON, who was born in Dieppe, studied medicine and geology, and worked as a con struction engineer as a young man.

When the war broke out, he joined up and served with the 26th British Military Mission, first as a technician.

His postings included Africa, Singapore and the Pacific, and he rose to the rank of major.

When Stalingrad was badly off for supplies, he was on a weekly trans port run with stores and equipment from Basra, in Iraq, to Russia.

Decided To Settle While serving in the South Pacific he became interested in the Islands and he decided to settle there one day.

In 1948, Gordon went to Kuwait, an emirate of 5,000 square miles in the Persian Gulf, which is the fourth biggest oil-producing country in the world.

He began as transport workshop superintendent with the Kuwait Oil Coy. Ltd., and for the last three of his 16 years there, he was a superin tendent inspecting mobile plant and vehicles.

While on furlough in 1961, he and his English wife visited Norfolk and bought the Cascade property which they took over last March.—

Merval Ho Are.

Gordon Duvall