Under-age Troops
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Dec. 17. The Army has sent nearly 100 soldiers under 21 to serve with units overseas in the past two months. Although the Army is unwilling to specify the units in which the youths are serving, it is understood that about 70 20-year-oids and 30 19-year-oids are serving in the Ist Battalion on Borneo border patrol duties and in Vietnam.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30938, 20 December 1965, Page 13
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