ESCAPE FROM CRETE
SELECTION BY LOT The story of how a recent escape by New Zealand soldiers from Crete was decided by lot was told at a sitting of the No. 3 Armed Forces Appeal Board in New Plymouth. A Taranaki soldier, Private 11. Marshall, of Te Tawa, Inglewood, was the unlucky man who was left behind. - Mr. H. R. Billing, appearing for the father, Alex Marshall, in an appeal for a younger son, told the board that news was recently received that three or four New Zealand soldiers who had been left on the island lin'd a chance to escape in a small boat that would not accommmodate them all. They drew lots for places and the appellant’s son lost. He stayed on Crete and was apparently still living in the hills. News of him was conveyed to N,ew Zealand by one of the men who Anally reached safety in the boat,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20628, 2 December 1941, Page 6
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153ESCAPE FROM CRETE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20628, 2 December 1941, Page 6
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