CAPTURED BY NAZIS
YOUNG WANGANUI CADET IN PORT BRISBANE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, This Day. The youngest member of the crew of the Port Brisbane, reported to have been sunk by an enemy raider off the Australian coast, is the 18-year-old Alexander Neil Dawson, son of Mrs E. Caulton, Marton, who is believed to have been taken prisoner. Cabled advice to this effect has been received by Mrs CaUlton from a Port Brisbane officer who escaped. A cadet in the Port Brisbane, Alexander Dawson, is the elder son of the late Alexander Dawson, formerly Chief Postmaster at Wanganui and Palmerston North. Young Dawson was educated at the Hastings Boys’ High School and the Sir John Cass Nautical College, London. He had been employed by the Port Line for 15 months.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1940, Page 6
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130CAPTURED BY NAZIS Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1940, Page 6
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