HER FATHER’S LEAVE
CHILD’S LETTER TO I/ORD KITCHENER.
The story of how a child induced -.ord Kitchener to send her soldierfather home on leave in 1915 was disclosed at Brighton after the wedding of Miss Mary Audrey Turnbull, daughter of a Brighton newsagent, and Mr diaries Taylor (says the “Daily Mail”) - Mary was only seven in 1915, when she tore a sheet of paper from a picture, book and wrote the following note, and posted it without a stamp:— Dear Lord Kitchener—Will yon plea.se let my daddy come home to see me? Then I will let you have him back again.—Mary. Mr Turnbull, Mary’s father, said to a reporter that he was show n the letter, got leave, and went home to Mary.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1930, Page 3
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123HER FATHER’S LEAVE Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1930, Page 3
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