Mrs. H. Gerald Weston, of Canterbury, is about to undergo a serious operation,: states the- "British' Australasian" of. February 17. . She' hopes ■later' on in tho year to return m time for the New . Zealand summer. Mrs. Weston's stay on this side has -been a sad one, for her husband, who was of the Ist Canterbury Regiment, enlisted in the Royal West. Kents last September, and left for Flanders on October 1. Mrs. Weston was expecting him homo every day to be gazetted when the news came through that ho was killed in action on November 17. In- his last letter to his wife—it was found on him on the battlefield—he wrote:—"We are expecting an attack by the Germans tonight, and I feel like playing hell with them." In the Zeppelin raid in October Mrs. Weston -had a most narrow escape. .'■'-, He,: ,! 3ut doesn't my devotion arouse in you some - feeling for me?" She: "Oh, yes; the sort of feeling one takes • a tonic for in,the spring."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2743, 11 April 1916, Page 3
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