A LONG WALK.
FEAT BY OCTOGENARIAN. BY CABLE—PREBB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Aug. 28. Francis Wood, an octogenarian and an ex-Coldstream Guardsman, was accorded an ovation at Bath after walking 220 miles to Wembley and back because he could not afford the railway fare.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 August 1924, Page 5
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42A LONG WALK. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 August 1924, Page 5
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