LT.-COL. J. W. CRAVEN, medical superintendent of the Auckland Hospital, who was a passenger in the Sydney-Auckland plane this afternoon. Since the fall of Singapore he has been in the hands of the Japanese. He was in command of the Alexander Military Hospital when the Japanese took over and continued to carry on until the end of 1942, afterwards living as an ordinary prisoner of war in a dirty, crowded hut. Many of the hospital staff were slaughtered" (for no apparent reason.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 237, 6 October 1945, Page 6
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82LT.-COL. J. W. CRAVEN, medical superintendent of the Auckland Hospital, who was a passenger in the Sydney-Auckland plane this afternoon. Since the fall of Singapore he has been in the hands of the Japanese. He was in command of the Alexander Military Hospital when the Japanese took over and continued to carry on until the end of 1942, afterwards living as an ordinary prisoner of war in a dirty, crowded hut. Many of the hospital staff were slaughtered" (for no apparent reason. Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 237, 6 October 1945, Page 6
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