PRISONERS OF WAR
Noted Guest At Reunion (N.Z. Press Association) WANGANUI, April 17. A brilliant Melbourne surgeon and president of the Ex-Prisoners of War and Relatives Association of Victoria, Colonel E. E. Dunlop, will be a guest at the national reunion of former prisoners of war to be held in Wanganui in June. Announcing this today, the reunion’s organising committee said Colonel Dunlop would be accompanied by his wife. The dates of the reunion are June 20 to June 24. Other guests will include the national patron of the ExPrisoners of War Association. Brigadier G. Clifton, and Mrs Clifton, the Minister of Defence (Mr Eyre), and the Minister of Customs (Mr Shelton).
Colonel Dunlop became almost a legend in various camps along the line of the dreaded Burma railway for his exploits, sacrifices and efforts on behalf of his fellow prisoners of war and his defiance of his Japanese captors.
He served first in Greece, Crete, the Middle East and Tobruk, and then moved to the Far East when the Australian forces were withdrawn from the Middle East in 1942 Captured by the Japanese in 1942, he was soon appointed to take charge of several prisoner-of-war camps in Java, Malaya and Thailand.
Fellow prisoners christened him “king of the river" for his efforts along the Burma railway.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29801, 18 April 1962, Page 16
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