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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1941, Page 6

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TWO WAIRARAPA SOLDIERS ARRIVAL AT MASTERTON HOSPITAL. WELCOME GIVEN BY MAYOR & OTHERS. Private Athol George (Carterton) and Gunner W. D. Graham (Masterton), local members of the contingent of sick and wounded soldiers who arrived in Wellington recently, arrived by ambulance at the Masterton Hospital late this morning. Soon after the men had arrived, the Mayor of Mastertori. Mr T. Jordan, accompanied by Messrs H. J. Brass, president of the Wairarapa R.S.A., L. T. Wylie (vice-president), A. E. Prentice (secretary) and the Town Clerk, Mr G. T. O'Hara Smith, paid them a visit. Mr Jordan extended a warm welcome to the soldiers and expressed the hope that they would make a speedy recovery. Gifts of cigarettes, etc., were made. Private George, of the 14th Wellington . Battalion, left New Zealand with an early Echelon. After training in camps in Egypt he became ill and was invalided back to’New Zealand. Gunner W. D. Graham, of the sth Artillery Brigade, was knocked down by a motor cycle in Greece and had a leg broken. He had been invalided out of a hospital in Greece two days prior to the German invasion. His mother, Mrs Sexton, resides at Solway. Both men were appreciative of the welcome they had received at the Masterton Hospital.