BLIND SOLDIER
SPIRIT OF CHEERFULNESS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND,. This Day
Believed to be the only New Zealand soldier so far invalided home blinded in..the present war, Mr C. H. Humphries, of Carterton, is now in the New’ Zealand Institute for the Blind, Auckland, which he entered some weeks ago. The injury which caused his blindness was not due to enemy action but to an explosion in a parcel of detonators as he was lifting it from a truck in August of last year. After hospital treatment he was sent home. He had already made good progress at Braille, typewriting and basketmaking as a preliminary to making a fresh start in some new occupation.
His cheerfulness and self-reliance have impressed both his fellow workers and the staff of the institution.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1941, Page 6
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130BLIND SOLDIER Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1941, Page 6
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