WILL SELL HOME TO HELP ARMY
"I'll sell—lock, stock and barrel —the entire contents of my home for £10,000 sterling, with which to buy two flying ambulances. Will anyone make a bargain with me?" Lady James Braid Taylor, wife of a prominent member of the Indian Civil Service, and vice-president of the Silver Thimble Fund, has inserted that advertisement in the London Press. "I spent 14 years getting the home together," she says, "but it now seems a small thing. Flying ambulances are the pressing need. It is not enough that the Allied wounded should be moved by road. Lady Taylor has offered to assign the lease of her home on the outskirts of Oxford and sell the antiques and museum pieces which she has collccted during many years
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 174, 17 June 1940, Page 6
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129WILL SELL HOME TO HELP ARMY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 174, 17 June 1940, Page 6
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