WAR ADVENTURES
YOUNG NEW ZEALAND SEAMAN.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, June 9.
Leslie Mischewski, of Whangarei, who, at the age of sixteen, was the youngest member of the Claymore’s crew when she was recovering gold front the wrecked Niagara, and who I went down in a diving bell to 438 feet, is now a steward in the Merchant Navy. He was in a ship torpedoed off Charleston in 1942, and in another with a convoy which was bombed by Focke-Wulf 190’s last March.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1943, Page 4
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