RAAF gift marks appreciation

The Australian Government through the RAAF at Butterworth, Malaysia has rewarded the villagers of an Indonesian island who found the wreckage of a Mirage aircraft in which the former Commanding Officer of No. 75 Squadron, RAAF at Butterworth was killed in March 1968. Small pieces of wreckage, definately identified as part of the late Wing Commander E.J. Myer's aircraft, were dredged up by a fishing boat owned by Kang Heng Kiok of the village of Tandjung on Rangsang Island, 50 miles south west of Singapore. The Commanding Officer of No. 75 Squadron Wing Commander S.N. Watson led a small party of RAAF men from Butterworth to Rangsang Island to present Kang Heng Kiok with one hundred and eighty three U.S. dollars in cash for the time and expenses he incurred reporting the finding of the wreckage. Kang had his nets damaged by the wreckage and he spent two days off work to sail his small boat 50 miles to the Malaysian mainland and back to report the find.