WAR RESTORES SON

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 236, 4 October 1940, Page 9

WAR RESTORES SON

LOST FOR 13 YEARS.

A SOLDIER IN INDIA.

LONDON, August .30.

Every day for 13} years Mrs. Gait, of Glasgow, has set a place at table for her son, Galloway. But Galloway, a twin, hae never come for his meals. Nor has he written since he disappeared in 1927 —at the age of 16. His parents have spent a lot. of money trying to trace him. It failed to do so—'but Mrs. Gait remained confident that he was alive.

Then chance stepped in. Shortly after Dunkirk, a captain in the Royal Corps of Signals had attached to his unit a number of dispatch riders from France. This officer's home is in Glasgow. He was impressed by the resemblance of one dispatch rider to hie neighbour's twin son—John Gait. A few questions —and the young man admitted that he was the missing Galloway Gait.

The captain wrote to Mrs. Gait, the family travelled to the camp for a reunion, and there learned why Galloway had disappeared. He had played truant from a night school and run off to London, where he joined the Army and later served in India.

On his next leave Galloway's place at table will be filled.