KEEN TO JOIN THE FORCES
EXAMPLES BEFORE APPEAL BOARD (P.A.) WELLINGTON, September 26. Two striking examples of keenness on the part of young men to join the Armed Forces were given in letters which came before the Appeal Board yesterday. Both referred to appeals by employing companies. One wrote: “If I am made to stay at my work it will be like keeping me in gaol and I will hate my work and will not be happy until I am in the Army.” In asking that his name be not published for his wife’s sake, he added: “She might not understand and see things as I see them if she knew I was trying to get into the Army. When this war is over she will be proud of me, and until then she would be well looked after, although it would be very hard for us to be separated for a while but, in times like this, the way I look at it is that no sacrifice is too great.’’ In the other case it was stated that In keenness to join the Air Force the reservist had spent two months in hospital for the correction of a foot defect, and had then worn splints for two months.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23446, 29 September 1941, Page 6
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