ESCAPE FROM CRETE
SELECTION BY LOT ONE MAN LEFT BEHIND (0.C.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday 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 at New Plymouth. A Taranaki soldier, Private H. 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 had a chance to escape in a small boat that would not accommodate 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 New Zealand by one of the men who finally reached safety in the boat.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24134, 28 November 1941, Page 6
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