Tim Caws was a well liked Pay Lt. and Secretary to the Captain, whose signature appears on the back of photographs and documents passed for sending home. One of the Dunedin Society’s veterans, Alan Jarvis, aged 90, was a Writer in the same office, and remembers him well.
We do know that Tim was due another appointment – long overdue after over 3 years in Dunedin – when disaster struck. Sadly, we have no record of what his next appointment would have been. May 2007
Timothy Bruce Newton Caws, Paymaster, Sub-Lieutenant, was born on April 18th 1917, the eldest son of Bernard Silas Caws, a manager employed by Elders and Fyffes Ltd., banana importers, and his wife Elsie Caws, née Trull.
The Caws were a prominent family from the Isle of Wight, and Timothy’s father served both in the Royal Navy and later the Royal Engineers, where he attained the rank of Major.
Timothy’s brother, Sub-Lieutenant William Caws, was killed in action in November 1944.