Hugh Dunstone BILBY [1378]

  General Notes:

2004/23317 Bilby Hugh Dunstone 17 August 1920 (dob)

Gisborne Herald, 30 July 1942
FURTHER N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES
TOTAL NEARLY 400 GISBORNE MEN MISSING & WOUNDED NINE DEATHS REPORTED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. The names of 40 Gisborne and East Coast soldiers, the majority posted missing, believed prisoners of war, apyear in the latest list of New Zealand Expeditionary Force casualties. . . . .
BELIEVED PRISONERS OF WAR.
. . . . . Bilby, Cpl. Hugh, Eketahuna. . . . .


Otago Daily Times, 18 May 1945
REPORTED SAFE
FORMER WAR PRISONERS
TWENTY-SEVEN OTAGO MEN
Twenty-seven Otago men are included in a large contingent of New Zealand service personnel recently repatriated to England from prisoner-of-war camps in Germany (the rank is private, unless otherwise stated):\emdash
. . . .
SAFE IN UNITED KINGDOM
. . . . Bilby, Hugh, Cpl., Eketahuna. . . . .

Hugh married Joan Alison FARROW [1408] [MRIN: 468] in 1948. (Joan Alison FARROW [1408] was born on 27 Jun 1929 in New Zealand, died on 15 Feb 2014 in Thames Hospital, New Zealand and was buried in Totara Memorial Park, Thames, New Zealand.)