EX-SER VICEMIL.

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21223, 20 September 1940, Page 7

EX-SER VICEMIL.

WAIKATO ACTIVITIES RETURNED SOLDIERS’ NOTES MEN SERVING AGAIN (By “Dink”) Mr Owen Jones, a member of the Putaruru District Returned Soldiers’ Association and for some time a resident of Putaruru and Rotorua districts, is now serving with the rank of captain in the 14th Forestry Company. Mr Jones served as a flying officer during the last war in the Royal Air Force. Second-Lieutenant Austin, also of Putaruru, who during the last war was a member of the Otago Regiment, is now a platoon commander in the 14th Forestry Company. The troops now at Te Rapa say that the cows there are different from those at Trentham which took no notice at all of the soldiers marching. On the route marches here, however, whole herds rush to the fence to gaze curiously as the boys go marching by. * * * * Mr Joseph Connolly, of Arapuni, a member of the Royal Navy in the last war and who has since then been on the reserve list, has been called up for duty and is again serving with the Navy. To the soldiers who were in contact with Major-General Sir Andrew Russell during the last war the fact of his appointment as InspectorGeneral of the New Zealand Forces will come as very welcome news. Still virile and able, it was patent that one of his ability must again play an important part in today’s situation. * * * • Mr W. J. Foster, who has been farming at Ngaruawahia between wars, belongs to the small and select body who were members of the Main Body in 1914 and the First Echplon in 1940. In the last war he served in the Mounted Rifles and is now Captain Quartermaster, Headquarters Squadron of the Divisional Cavalry, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Egypt. The parade ground at Narrow Neck Camp stretches down to a cliff ! which falls some thirty or forty i feet to the beach below. A pros- ; pective officer trying his ’prentice j hand at drilling a detail of men be- | came stage-struck with his squad in motion going toward the cliff. The right word of command refused to ! come to l.is mind and at last as the ; men neared the cliff the supervising instructor cried: “For sake say something if it is only Good-bye!”