A MISSING SOLDIER.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1923, Page 1

A MISSING SOLDIER.

IS MOTHER'S QUEST ENDED. WANGANUI, July 21. Early in the month the Dunedin papers contained the statement that Mr IE Turner had received, out of Tonkin and Co.’s private lettcr-l-ox, a postcard addressed to Mr Ferguson. There being no one of that name in the firm’s employ, he became interested. in the card, as it bore the correct number of the firm’s box. The message on the card indicated that the writer was a Sydney mother who was in quest of information regarding her returned soldier son, Frank Marshall. Marshall left with the Australian Forces, was wounded in the bead and taken prisoner. Two corn(Minions had told tlio motlior that a soldier whom they had helped to escape hud suffered from lapses of memory. All three arrived in London together, and his companions put a ticket round Marshall's neck, and told him where to go to find the military. Apparently he never arrived, and all tract* has keen lost of him since that date. Ihe mother then heard that he had arrived ii Dunedin. Hence tlie inquiry. Mr W. A. Grace, of Wanganui.

i-'.ates that in 1918 a. returned soldier I- •ni-iiig the name of Frank Marshall cas kuried here, ib* had been staving

|i, Keith Street, and was somewhat peculiar in Ids manner, whim leads Mi Grace to believe (hat h<- may have been iho missing soldier. He is making further inquiries with a view to throwing fresh light on the niattei. The soldier in question did not belong to W anganiii.