OLD SOLDIER'S EXAMPLE
Sir, —Congratulations to the BEACON for giving publicity to the fact that one old soldier who had 20 years in the British Regular Army and was with Sir John French in France and Belgium in 1914 is still going strong as a member of the Whakatane Home Guard! That should be an example to some other residents who have not yet enrolled in the Home Guard. Let them come cdong and do their bit too. Those of us who know this Whakatane veteran of the 1914 campaign are sure that he is the last one who would talk about himself and his service to his country. However it is only right that the younger generation should know something of the spirit of "(he boys of the Old Brigade." Such veterans are the sort who gave rise to the saying "Old soldiers never die." The local Home Guard should be all the keener for knowing that they have such a man in the ranks with them. Yours etc., CITIZEN.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 273, 19 February 1941, Page 4
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171OLD SOLDIER'S EXAMPLE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 273, 19 February 1941, Page 4
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