WRESTLER ENLISTS
"LOFTY" BLOMFIELD (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The New Zealand professional heavyweight wrestling champion, Meynell Blomfield, known as “Lofty,” strolled into the recruiting office and enlisted in the Special Military Force for home or overseas service. “They said something about a recommendation as a physical culture expert, but they put me down as a professional wrestler, truck driver and motor driver,” said Blomfield to an interviewer;
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20067, 13 October 1939, Page 11
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69WRESTLER ENLISTS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20067, 13 October 1939, Page 11
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