BROTHERS MEET ABROAD.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 April 1919, Page 6

BROTHERS MEET ABROAD.

SEPARATION OF IS YEARS. NEW ZEALANDERS' EXPERIENCE. An experience in the lives of Captain J. A. Wilson, commander of the transport Bhamo, which arrived at Auckland on Thursday night, and of his brother, Lieutenant J. H. Wilson, M.C., and M.M., with bar, of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, is probably as unusual as it is romantic. Born in Duncdin. Captain Wilson joined the mercantile marine as a youth, and in 1899 he left the Dominion before the mast. In the years that have elapsed since then he gradually won promotion, until he obtained his master's certificate, and w?s given command of some of the large liners. During that time he did not visit the Dominion, neither did he sec. his. brothers. His younger brother, Lieut, J. IT. Wilson, left the Dominion with the Fifth Roinforee-

ment as a private, and after service in Gallipoli and in France was nominated for a commission and withdrawn to Cambridge, England, for training. Inflowing the name of the steamship COmpahy by which, his brother was employCt 1 , lit made enquiries as to the ship he was commanding. Thus, after a lapse of 18-1 years, he met his brother. With the cessation of hostilities, the .two brothers decided to return to the "Dominion together. Captain Wilson succeeded in obtaining & transfer to the Bhamo as commander, and *^' Q m yj. tary authorities to allow Lieut. fVViLs'jh to travel by the same steamer..