LIMBLESS SOLDIERS.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 140, 13 June 1919, Page 7

LIMBLESS SOLDIERS.

« NEW ZEALAND'S OBLIGATIONS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. About forty limbless returned soldiers attended a meeting this evening, when Brigadier-General G. S. Richardson attended to address them. The General said he had been most anxious to meet limbless soldiers. Nothing had impressed him so much as a visit to Roehampton. It brought home to him the real horrors of war. During the time he was in England he studied the disabled soldiers' problem, and saw it would loom up large after the war. He did not want to see limbics soldiers put on to temporary occupations. He desired to seem them [ settled in permanent positions. He was going to take a close interest in limbless soldiers, but he asked those present to remember there were numbers of other disabled men who were worse off than j limbless men. The New Zealand Expeditionary Force had suffered 50,000 i battle casualties, and of that number 1000 were limbless. The General made individual inquiries of each man as to ! his position and prospects in life, and I noted cases for special inquiry. He I thanked the men for putting their eases i before him. He had learnt a good deal from what had been said, and he hoped in a few months' time there would not be any further need for complaint.