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Allan Champion - Resident Magistrate at Buna Mission
by Allan Champion via Eighty Three Years of Memories 1905 - 1988 (unpublished memoirs)

Stationed at Buna before the war. Passed away in 1988 in retirement in Australia.

Japanese Seaplane Lands At Buna
Mid-July 1942, the daring attack of Japanese seaplane

Rescue of B-17E 41-2446 Crew
Australian Resident Magistrate, Buna. Assised the crew of B-17E 41-2446 by having them stay with him at Buna, and assisted them attempting to walk over the Owen Staneley Mountains back to Port Moresby.  When that failed arranged boat transport around the coast.

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