SYDNEY RESERVISTS.
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES. Received May 10, 11.25 a.m. LONDON, May 9. Two Sydney men, both sub-lieuten-ants, fire among the survivors of His Majesty’s trawlers Gaul and Saint Goran, which were lost in the evacuation of Trondheim. Both are members of a batch of reservists who recently arrived from Australia. After being bombed 'and machinegunned every few hours for several days off the Norwegian coast the crews took shelter in the woods, but even there they were subjected to continual attacks from machine guns and bombs.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 137, 10 May 1940, Page 7
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