MARCH IN STREETS.
16th Brigade 2nd A.I.F. To Be On Show In Sydney.
"BLOOD TYPES" RECORDED
SYDNEY, this day
It is officially announced that the 10th Brigade of tho 2nd A.I.F. will inarch through the streets of Sydney on January 4. The brigade numbers 0500. Tlie "blood type" of every member of the 2nd A.I.F. will be recorded in his pay-book, and also inscribed on the back of his identity disc, so that men who aro severely wounded may be given blood transfusions without loss of time. It is believed that the A.I.F. will be tho first of the Allied armies to havo tho blood type of every man classified in advance.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 8
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112MARCH IN STREETS. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 8
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