“Victor Haggith is the youngest ship’s gunner in- Britain. He is fourteen years and ten months old and stands four feet two inches. He ran away, from home and left a message 1 tucked in his mattress which said: ‘The Hood has gone down, Mum. You can’t expect me to stop.at home and do nothing about it.’ His father was in the Navy in the last war. His brother (aged sixteen) is in the Air Training Corps, and his sister of seventeen is training for the Land Army.” Introduction to a 8.8. C. talk by the “Youngest Gunner in the Merchant Navy.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1942, Page 4
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102Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1942, Page 4
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