BLIND SOLDIER’S WALKING FEAT
(10 a.m.) LONDON, May 26. Guided by a leather thong fastened to liis arm, which was held'by his mother-in-law riding <t bicycle, a blinded 32-year-old factory worker, Arthur Morgan, won it sixmile walking match against 32 walkers who could see. Morgan was blinded while in a Commando unit in flaly.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22340, 27 May 1947, Page 5
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54BLIND SOLDIER’S WALKING FEAT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22340, 27 May 1947, Page 5
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