WRONG NAME LAST WAR
VOLUNTEER REJECTED STAND BY AUTHORITIES (From a Correspondent) ADELAIDE, October 14 After having travelled to Adelaide from North Australia in the hope of joining the Returned Soldiers’ League garrison force a returned soldier was told that he could not be accepted because he had served in the last war under an assumed name. He is Mr P. Larking, who has been working at the 761-mile camp of the Commonwealth Raiways, about 100 miles south of Oodnadatta. He said that he had enlisted from Yass (New South Wales) in 1918, when aged 15 years. He had wanted to join his five brothers at the front, so that given his age as over 18, and adopted the name of George Alexander Cahill. His discharge papers were granted in that name. “I was told that I could join the A.I.F. Reserve under the name of G. A. Cahill,” he said, “but I will not do that, as I am married now. Like thousands of others, I served under an assumed name.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20954, 6 November 1939, Page 9
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172WRONG NAME LAST WAR Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20954, 6 November 1939, Page 9
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