WHITE FEATHER CAMPAIGN
BEGUN IN ENGLAND. ENGLISH PEERS FIRST RECIPIENTS. The white feather campaign has begun in England. The first recipients are two English peers. The white feathers arrived one day in identical, blue registered envelopes, one for Lord Waleran of Bradfield, Devonshire, the other for Lord Sandhurst at his place in Sheringham, Norfolk. Lord Waleran, who was once a lieutenant in a gunner territorial regiment, applied several weeks ago for a commission in the R.A.F. He holds an “A" flying licence. While waiting he became a mobile police officer —in fact a dispatch rider under military orders. Lord Sandhurst is also a mobile police officer, and equally anxious to get to France at the earliest opportunity. He is forty-seven. When he was twenty-two he enlisted in the Royal Engineers Signal Service, was given his commision a month later, was mentioned in dispatches and became a captain.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1940, Page 6
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147WHITE FEATHER CAMPAIGN Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1940, Page 6
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