Escape From Greece
(.Specialj WANGANUI, This Day. After being missing since the campaign in Greece. .Sergeant U. N. Northover has advised his mother, Mrs. I. Northover, of Ferguson Street, Wanganui, by cablegram that he is safe and well and lias rejoined nis unit in Egypt. Sergeant Northover left for overseas in 1940, anc! was taken prisoner by the Germans in Greece, but escaped. After the evacuation of Greece, nothing was heard of- him until 12 months ago. when unofficial word was received in Wanganui that there was reason to believe that he was safe and well. This word came through a Palmerston North soldier who also escaped from the Germans in Greece, and after being at large for five and a-half months, succeeded in returning to Egypt.
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Northern Advocate, 23 July 1943, Page 2
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