INVALIDED RETURNED SOLDIER CALLED IN BALLOT
...... (To the Editor.) . Sir,—l trust you will' pardon me for taking up space in your .paper; but ow,ing to some misunderstanding in*the Defence Department I was ,very much surprised to find my name in the Sixth. Ballot. I was invalided back to New Zealand, arriving at Port Chalmers on January/19, "and was discharged from the New , Zealand Expeditionary Force on February 20,- 1917, as being no longer physically fit for active service. It is hard wheha man has been honourably discharged after thinking'he had-done his little bifr. to be 'called up as a conscript Thanking you for this space in your paper,—! am, etc., ";.„■' w ;■'-•' „ J - M'LATJGHLIN. (8 Waipapa Road, Hataitai.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 18 April 1917, Page 5
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117INVALIDED RETURNED SOLDIER CALLED IN BALLOT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 18 April 1917, Page 5
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