COLONEL BECOMES LABORER.
Brisbane, Dec. 30. At a welcome home dinner given by the Commercial Travellers' Association last night to returned soldier members, the Governor, Sir H. Goold-Adams, said that he knew a lieutenant-colonel who had left Australia as a private, and had risen to the position of transport officer under Lieutenant-General Sir H. Chauvel in Palestine, where he had charge of the transport of 50,000 troops. He had won the D-5.0., and had been created a C.M.G. This man was now employed as a common laborer, filling gas cylinders at £3 a week. It was difficult to understand how such things could be allowed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1920, Page 6
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105COLONEL BECOMES LABORER. Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1920, Page 6
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