HER FATHER’S LEAVE
CHILD’S LETTER TO LORD ’ KITCHENER. The story of how a child induced Lord Kitchener to send her soldierfather home on leave in 1915 was disclosed at Brighton after the wedding of Miss Mary Audrey Turnbull, daughter of a Brighton newsagent, and Mr. Charles Taylor (says the “Daily Mail. ) Mary was only seven in 1915 when she tore a sheet of paper from a picture book and wrote the following note, and posted it without a stamp:—• Dear Lord Kitchener, —Will you please let my daddy come home to see me? Then I will let you have him back again.—Mary. Mr. Turnbull. Mary’s father, said to a reporter that he was shown the letter, got leave, and went home to Mary.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 7
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123HER FATHER’S LEAVE Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 7
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