ESCAPE FROM GERMANS
PORT CHALMERS -SOLDIER NOW BACK AT BASE CAMP Mrs A. Cross, of Port Chalmers, has received advice from the Minister of Defence, Mr F. Jones, stating that her son, Gunner Gilbert Lawrence Cross, is back at a 2nd N.Z.E.F. base camp. Gunner Cross was posted as missing after the Crete campaign. Last Christmas Mrs Cross received a Feldpost card, dated June 26. 1941. from her son, who said he was well, had not been wounded, and was in German custody. A letter from Private Mower has been received since then containing the news that he, in company with Gunner Cross, had escaped from the German prison camp.'and that they had spent six months together hiding in the hills. Private Mower said that he had had an " opportunity of leaving Crete," but unfortunately Gunner Cross was away at a nearby village at the time and was left behind.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24945, 18 June 1942, Page 2
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