N.Z. Corporal Leads Yugoslav Partisans
(Rec. 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, March 12. Corporal J. Denver, of Christchurch, has been promoted commander of a Yugoslav partisan battalion,.' with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, says a Cairo message. Corporal Denver, who was taken prisoner by the Germans after the evacuation of Greece in 1941 made two escapes from German prison camps before joining a band of 120 Yugoslav partisans.
He was presumed dead by the New Zealand army and. for a year, his wife received the widow’s pension. Corporal Denzer, who is now in Cairo recovering from a wound to an arm, says that at one time his partisans cut all the railway routes leading from the Balkans to Italy.
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Northern Advocate, 13 March 1944, Page 3
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