YOUNG VETERANS OF AIR RAIDS
SCOTTISH BOYS ARRIVE IN DOMINION (Special to The Times) WELLINGTON, September 13. Veterans of many air raids were four sturdy young Scots, Alastair and lan McKay and James and Robert Hamilton, who were among a party of British children who arrived in the Dominion from the Old Country. Their ages varied from 11 to 14 years. The boys were conspicuous among 170 young travellers by their broad accents, their bonnets, kilts and sporrans, and their lively, cheerful dispositions. They were accompanied by their mothers and were going to friends in various parts of the Dominion, the Hamiltons to Auckland and the McKays to Dunedin. All came from Glasgow. , ~ » -j Aye, we ve seen air raids, said Alastair. He said there had been air raids over Glasgow and afterward when they were in London shortly before they left England.' “And what did you do? Go down into the shelters?”
“No,” the boy replied scornfully. “We just stayed in our beds.” “Were you very frightened?”—“Of course not,” he disclaimed indignantly. His reply was stated to be typical of the brave and matter-of-fact attitude of the youth of Britain to German frightfulness.
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Southland Times, Issue 24231, 14 September 1940, Page 4
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194YOUNG VETERANS OF AIR RAIDS Southland Times, Issue 24231, 14 September 1940, Page 4
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