MISSING IN LIBYA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 2, 3 January 1942, Page 8

MISSING IN LIBYA

LIEUT.-COL. J. M. TWHIGG

Lieutenant-Colonel J. M. Twhigg, a well-known Wellington doctor, is reported missing in the Libyan campaign. Lieutenant-Colonel Twhigg went overseas with the Second Echelon and consequently spent some time in Britain before proceeding to the Middle East. He took command of the sth Field

Ambulance before the echelon reached Egypt and was in command through the Grecian and Cretan campaigns. Since then he has been in the Middle East, and he took the Ambulance into action when General Auchinleck commenced his advance.

"He was one of the most able officers there and I am very sorry to see that he has gone," Dr. Bruce Rennie, of Karori, who recently returned from overseas, said today. Dr. Rennie added that he had last seen Dr. Twhigg about a month before he left the Middle East.

Dr. Twhigg, who had been in practice in Wellington for about twelve years before going on active service, is a M.D. (N.Z.) and a M.R.C.P. (England). He was one of the senior physicians at the Wellington Hospital. He first practised at Kilbirnie, but later had consulting rooms at Bowen Street. He is a son of Mr. John Twjiigg, Dunedin, and was born in that city.