GRAVES ADVENTURE
"YOUNG ENGLISH GENTLEMAN"
"Young English gentleman, physical!}'" Jit, well bred and' educated, world-wid/ travelling experience, speaks French fluently, will take up any occupation, dangerous or otherwise (such as bodyguard) . Applicant for ' adventure who inserted tlic above advertisement some days ago in a Sydney paper —almost as anti-climax—added his address as the Y.M.C.A. Pic is Edward Falcon Barker, 21 year old, handsome, tall and at present bored with life. Because he was born in Nice, of an English father and French mother, and cannot obtain a copy |oi' his birth certificate from Franco at present, his application for the A.ir Force has been rejected by recruiting authorities in Sydney. "I have been in Australia two years, just travelling about," lie explained, in his calm, self-possessed manner to The Sunday Sun. "I have been travelling nearly all my life —through Europe, India and Africa. "My father was well known as an explorer and big game hunter. "My mother is in England. -She wanted me to take up farming in -Australia, bun, while I like Australia, I don't like farming."
Disappointed in not being able to get into the R.A.A.F., he has registered with the Free French Movement, but would like something more immediate. An officer' at Victoria Barracks stated that Barker's chances of geting into the A.I.F. were not rosj r .
"Enlistments will be limited for a while," said the officer, "and, naturally, Australians will be given preference in the A.1.F."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 266, 3 February 1941, Page 3
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241GRAVES ADVENTURE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 266, 3 February 1941, Page 3
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