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(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 27.
A New Zealander who was once described in London as “one of the bravest men of the war” has returned to Auckland after an absence of 20 years.
He is Mr W. S. Jordan, a former journalist and now a teacher at St. Ignatius’ College, Sydney, who spent three years of the Second World War as a guerrilla leader in enemy-occupied territories of Greece and France. To the resistance forces of the two countries he was known simply as “Major Bill." Mr Jordan keeps in touch with Frenchmen and Greeks of his war-time guerrilla bands.
He said today that one of the Greek patriots, now a general commanding GreekCypriot forces in Cyprus, spent almost 20 years trying to locate him. The task ended only recently when the general appealed to the United
Nations’ command in Cyprus i to try to find “Major Bill.” After visiting members of , his family in Auckland and ; Wellington, Mr Jordan will I return to Sydney next month • —to continue “teaching I French with guerrilla accent.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30634, 28 December 1964, Page 1
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