RIVER PLATE HEROES
CHEERFUL AND PATIENT IN HOSPITAL ALL BUT TWO ON ROAD TO RECOVERY. SAILORS STAGE CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day. 10.25 a.m.) LONDON. February 20. The matron of the hospital at the Falkland Islands, whore the injured heroes of the River Plate battle were taken, describes, in a letter to her parents, a Christmas parly when New Zealand sailors put on grass skirts and danced round the wards. “They greatly delighted the patients, whose heroism, cheerfulness and patience make one realise what a lot of bosh is talked about the degeneration of the British race.” she says. Only two mon have died in hospital. The rest are well on the road to recovery and very few will be permanently disabled.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1940, Page 5
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126RIVER PLATE HEROES Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1940, Page 5
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