Gwen ALLMAN (née Evans)

26 September 1998, aged 8

Gwen was one of the schoolchildren in Rabaul in the early 20s, along with her brothers Hal and George. Their father, Bielby Evans, was with the Expropriation Board. Years were spent in Buka on plantations, later at boarding school, and in her late teens as one of the ‘bright young things’ in Rabaul, where she met and later married patrol officer Bill Allman.

They eventually settled in Wahroonga, Sydney, raising a family of three daughters and one son. Bill had joined the pharmaceutical firm Johnson & Johnson, eventually becoming financial director. He predeceased Gwen by twenty years. Gwen is survived by her three daughters and son, and grandchildren. Linda Evans