HOME FROM WAR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25427, 7 January 1944, Page 2

HOME FROM WAR

MIDDLE EAST DRAFT SICK, WOUNDED, AND FORMER PRISONERS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 0. Repatriated New Zealand prisoners of war from Italy, including some who escaped after the invasion by the Allied forces, were among a draft which returned recently to New Zealand. All were in good health and pleased to be home. Welcoming the draft, which included 29 sick and wounded soldiers and 94 repatriated prisoners of war, the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, expressed his gratitude to those men on land, sea, and in the air who had done so much for the Allied cause, and said he hoped that the returned men would soon be restored to complete health. The Minister of Defence, Mr F. Jones, and the Minister of Rehabilitation, Mr C. F. Skinner, also extended a welcome. The following Otago sick, wounded, and other personnel were included in the draft: — 9

Second-lieutenant John Roberts, Seacliff.

Captain James Robertson, Oamaru. Lieutenant Eric George Finlayson, Dunedin.

Private Robert Francis Todd, Dunedin. . , , The following Otago repatriated prisoners of war also returned with the draft (the rank is private unless otherwise stated):—

Roy Arundel, Dunedin. Eric Barnett, Dunedin. James Muir Cameron Begg, Dunedin.

Jack Bryan, Dunedin. George Harry Davie, Dunedin. Lance-corporal George Alex. Dickson, Tiiapeka Mouth. John Russell Gall, Otekura. John McKnight, Dunedin. Colin Richard Moore, Oamaru. Lance-corporal Jack Parsons Murdoch, Dunedin. Gordon Ross Poison, Oamaru. Stanley McGowan Robert, Dunedin. John Philip Kitchener Roughan, Dunedin.

Walter Francis Williams, Dunedin,