NAPIER MAN REPATRIATED.
ARRIVAL IN BRITAIN FROM f JAPAN.
P.A. Special.
LONDON, Oct. 13.
Mr R. W. Edgley, of Napier, has arrived in England frm China. He is oue of 1100 British and Allied subjects who have been repatriated from the Far East. Mr Edgley, formerly of Victoria University College, joined up with the Colonial Service in Singapore in September, 1940. He went in October to study Chinese at Amoy, where he was eventually appointed Vice-Con-sul. The Japanese took him prisoner the morning they declared war, and interned him in his house until Aprii, 1942, when they sent him to Shanghai. He remained there for four months until he sailed for Lourenco Marques, en route for England. He hopes to enlist if he can be reieased from the Colonial Service.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 243, 15 October 1942, Page 2
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130NAPIER MAN REPATRIATED. Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 243, 15 October 1942, Page 2
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