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WATCH LEFT WITH GREEK BOY Sydney, Sept. 22. f A wrist watch which was left by a;n s AjUStralian soldier in the custody of a "Greek boy at Karditza Thessaly, has been returned to the owner. .Private Ivan D. Chapman wore the watch, which was a 21st birth- • day gift, when his machine-gun detachment was giving support to the , New Zealand infantry in the hills 01 Thessaly in 1941. During the withdrawal he became /detached from his unit and joined 12 other Australians in the hills. After a week of liberty they were captured and taken by the Germans to Karditza. They were visited in prison by a Greek boy and girl, to whom Private Chapman entrusted his watch, pen, pencil and diary, before being taken to Germany. The boy, Theodore Germanopoulos, who is now a student at Athens University, wrote a quaint letter to Chapman's parents in 1944 and promised to return the articles. They arrived yesterday parcelled in a fig box.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 14172, 24 September 1946, Page 3
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