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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 205, 1 September 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

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WAXTEI) TOEXLIST. Tli'> youngesl Briton to receive the King's .-hilling i s Stanley George Lawrence, ot Peterborough, England. He is live years old. IJvs mule was killed at the front las* September, and ever since Stanley has been tilled wrtli the desire to avenge iiim. He knew from bis mother that he was below Army age, but he decided to try to enlist. When lie left school on Thursday, instead of going home to dinner he went to the local recrmt : n; office, and told the sergeant in charge nil about it. The sergeant nrght have laughed at the boy or told liim to «:ill again in ]\)'2'.K but he rose to the occasion. H" took an iiiipnsing-loola'ng Army form and wrote on the back :—■ This is to certify that Stanley George Lawrence, aged five, offered himself for enlistment at Peterborough because tlie Germans killed Irs uncle, but lie was unable to fulfill the necessary physical conditions. Tlfs form, with the recruit's customary -hilling, was handed to the boy, and he was nearly as happy as':l he had been in khaki.