RETURNING FROM KOREA

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26967, 17 February 1953, Page 10

RETURNING FROM KOREA

45 MEN TO REACH N.Z. TOMORROW (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 16. Forty-five K Force soldiers, most of whom have completed their term of service in Korea, are due to return to New Zealand on Wednesday. Twenty-two are scheduled to come to Wellington and the other 23 to Auckland. The men left Iwakuni airport. Japan, on Saturday. Travelling with them as far as Sydney was LieutenantColonel R. McK. Paterson, who recently completed his term as commander of the 16th New Zealand Field Regiment. Colonel Paterson will remain in Australia for a fortnight before returning to New Zealand.

The names of the men in the Wellington flight, expected at Evans Bay, at 7.30 a.m.. are:—Lieutenant M. W. Lawson Smith (Wellington). Sergeants K. G. Strange (Greytown), G. A. Sexton, and D. Wilson (Masterton). Bombardiers T. P. Green (Bulls), J. D. Howell (Dunedin), and L. J. Quigg (Hastings), Corporals W. D. A. Campbell <Christchurch), G. A. Rippin (Levin), and P. A. Webb (Christchurch), Gunners K. E. Gibson (Timaru), K. A. Gillum and D. J. Greig (Wanganui), T. A. Hamilton (Christchurch). R. F. H. Sheehy (Balclutha), J. N. Smith (Dunedin), R. Whalley (Christchurch), and S. F. Williams (Wanganui), Signalmen W. D. F. Bradley (Timaru), and B. P. Frampton (Invercargill), and Drivers D. I. Cockburne (Westport), and G. H. Hooper (Christchurch). Those due at Auckland at 4.15 p.m. on Wednesday are:—Sergeants R. B. Burgham (Auckland), S. E. Clayden Whangaparoa),R. A. C. Foley (Napier), R. F. W. Skeen (Howick), and R. W. Wilcock (Tauranga), Corporal L. M. Carkeek (Frankton). Lance-Bombar-diers B. W. Hewitt (Taumarunui). and R. E. Murrell (Taihape), Corporals D. Howat (Whakatane), B. S. Cleaver (Auckland), and C. C. Morten (Wairoa), Gunners H. Bradley (North Auckland), L. H. Harris (Auckland), H. Keepa (Rotorua). A. Simons (Dargaville), and J. E. Stretton (Auckland), Drivers T. J. Andrews and P. R. Fraser (Auckland), W. C. Gush (Hamilton), J. E. Jones (Palmerston North), P. R. J. O’Brien (Auckland). E. A. Walker (Te Kuiti), and A. D. Austin (Okaikau).