AMBULANCE UNIT
Departure For China (N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 12. Seven New Zealand recruits to the Friends Ambulance Unit have left for China, being the first civilians to leave New Zealand for relief work in the war zone. They are Dr. Graham A. Milne (Dunedin), Messrs Lindsay Crozier (Dunedin), Neil and John Johnson (Christchurch), Courtney Archer (Rangiora), and Wilfred and Owen Jackson (Auckland). They have gone under the aegis of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society and will be away at least two years. The Friends Ambulance Unit is a voluntary organisation of members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and other Pacif ■ ts, who in various war zones take mecli il aid to civilian and soldier alike. Dr. Milne, who is a graduate of the Otago University Medical School, has been lent to the Friends Ambulance Unit by the Presbyterian Foreign Mission.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23226, 13 June 1945, Page 4
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