JOHN BULL CALLING
One of John Bull’s 'Committee (says a statement by the District Patriotic Committee) remembers a bright youngster who was a comrade in arms during the war of 25 years ago. This boy was in all the excitement that was going, and thoroughly enjoyed those portions of a soldier’s life which could be enjoyed—a good soldier in and out of the line. After 1918, this boy suffered from his nerves. He failed to find a niche in civil life and he vanished from the sight of his friends. Twenty-four years later—at Christmas, 1942—this boy called in at Masterton, but the years had taken - their toll. Something had happened—some after-effect of the strain he had suffered —which blocked his return to a civil life, and now he is down and out —a drinker of methylated spirits and a case almost beyond hope. John Bull asks you—can you risk such a thing happening to your boys today? You must do what you can to | see that these boys are helped in their 'hours of rest and on their beds of pain.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1943, Page 2
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