NEWS OF SOLDIERS.
SONS OF MR. W. T. JENNINGS, M.P. Letters T)v last mail from Lieutenant Harold Jei.nings, K.F.A., state that after leaving Dublin Castle Hospital he was on furlough in ' London for a month. His letter was from Athlone, Ireland, where four thousand men were being trained for the Royal Field Artillery. He was still troubled with some shrrapnel. whieli he received in Me advance on Loos on September 20th last. The doctors at the Castle Hospital told him he had been well peppered, as there were forty marks on him. His brother, Sergeant Alf. Jennings, writes by the same mail. He was all right again and was at Weymouth Camp, He and thirty other New Zealanders had been selected to go with Captain McDonnell (well-known here as drill instructor), to train recruits in ligypt, and they expected To leave England shortly after Christmas.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1916, Page 3
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145NEWS OF SOLDIERS. Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1916, Page 3
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