IN PRISON CAMPS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 192, 15 August 1941, Page 6

IN PRISON CAMPS

AUCKLAND OFFICERS

PREVIOUSLY MISSING

r ,^ C l vice thal Uvo Auckland officers .eutenanuss. Melling and P. Woolnanv Lf P IS? nerS ° ? war in Gomanv has been received bv their lelatives Lieutenant Melling" whose £v e R r* sldes at 37 - Glen Hold. Stan le> Ba\ is a son of Mr. J. Mellinc town clerk of Auckland. For some nfonf , wa f in lhe treasury departBoard °rni'^• Auc kland Harbour I™a1 ™ a , d - Enlisting early in the war, he was commissioned as a secondlieutenant and posted to an artillerv nV-iL, sorv j ,n J? ,n England. Egypt t te 'o- He was listed as missing on June 27. As the result of inquiries made bv the Internist 0 ho w a ° d CYo ? s thc that he was a prisoner of war was supphed to Mrs. Melling bv the Jones tCr ° Dcfencc - tlie Hon. F. m tenant Woolley. son of Mr. G ILimrr' of 62 - Wa >riki Road on Jun? o-' W n S als< ? P ostCfl missing Jun * Born in Auckland he School d nnH a v- al ™ Maungawhau a " d - Ncw Plymouth High father an p ri^[ ltercd business with his iatncr. Earl 3* in thc war he wac eeived h?c art . iu * rv l, nit and received his commission before coin" Orakc1 a ro,r H r,\ as 3 oTthe Sk? Club 3 Tongariro