COMFORTS FOR TROOPS
a.i.f. well looked after COMMISSIONER’S OPINION No army in the world is looked after better than the A.1.F., declared Lieut.-Colonel R. S. Coward, Chief Commissioner of the Australian Comforts Fund, when he returned from the Middle East.
There were 50 recreational huts and 50 writing rooms, club hotels at Jerusalem and Alexandria, tea-rooms at Tel Aviv and tea tents on the beach at. Gaza, where thousands swam. The biggest job was to refit the thousands of men from Greece and Crete. Each received new underwear, socks, shaving soap, toothpaste, toothbrush, cigarettes and food.
The fund was created by private donations in Australia.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3295, 2 August 1943, Page 3
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105COMFORTS FOR TROOPS Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3295, 2 August 1943, Page 3
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