A STRANGE COINCIDENCE 1918 Armistice 1938
T WENT home on leave on November 9, 19lH. to see iny disabled brother, who was also on hospital leave. Oil November 11, 1018, we derided to go Jo tlie city liy way of an outing and to bear the glad tiding# of peace. On hen ring of the Armistice 1 suggested an everlasting memento of having our photograph taken, which we did. it wa» taken at 11.65 a.m. On Friday, November 11, 1038, I w»n returning to the city, via Grafton Bridge, after paying homage to my comrades, tvhen my photograph wag taken again at 11.55 a.m. 1 am not in the habit of purchasing street photographs, but I do intend to purchase this particular one. This could not happen again in 20 years hence. I shall have joined the last route march. Ex-00 Pound Shrapnel. Ex-W.A.A.C. 5837. JSx-W.R.A.F. 2997.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 11 (Supplement)
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