FREYBERG’S SON

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21208, 3 September 1940, Page 7

FREYBERG’S SON

WORKS AS SAND-BAGGER ETON BOYS IN FACTORIES (Times Airmail Service) LONDON, July 9 Thirty or forty Eton boys are spending their Sundays working in factories engaged on war work, states the Evening Standard. One party of a dozen is filling and stacking sandbags at an aircraft production factory. A larger party is having its first experience of mass production technique. The boys remove the finished articles as they came from the machines and arrange them into stacks. The sand-baggers work as a gang. The others stand side by side with the regular employees. All the boys put in an eight-hour day and lunch in the staff canteens. There is, as yet, no issue of school dungarees. The boys wear their oldest clothes. Among therp is the 17-year-old son of Major-General Frey berg, V.C., commanding the New Zealand troops; their leader is Sir Anthony Meyer. Sir Anthony is 20 and is expecting to be called up in a few weeks. Meanwhile, he is acting as temporary assistant master at Eton. He is the grandson of Sir Carl Meyer, who, thirty years ago, gave £70,000 for the foundation of the National Theatre, and the son of Sir Frank Meyer, who was killed in a riding accident four years ago. Like his father, Sir Anthony became captain of the Oppidans. He has inherited Sir Frank’s social and athletic gifts.