THE PLODDER
UVERY Digger knows that most " of the telephone linesmen during the last war worked singly. One such man in the Battle oi Messines went on duty one even* ing at eight o'clock and came off next afternoon at three. During the intervening hcurs he plodded in the darkness, over shell holes, through barb wire and all the debris of a great battle, repairing the wires between various signal stations in the area. No sooner would he get one line repaired than another would be blown sky high. Through tbe long, trying hours, alone, he worked away, maintaining those vital links on which so much depended, until he was relieved. Had he been a pessimist he could not have stood it. Think of him, and thousands of others si'.e him. There are men like him to-day. Are you going to let them down?
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 159, 6 July 1940, Page 5 (Supplement)
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