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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 48, 25 August 1917, Page 6

The accidental meeting on the French front of two Cbristdhurch soldiers' who had left New Zealand at different times, and who were recently killed in action, was mentioned' in The Post on Thursday last. A resident of Wellington (a sister of two other soldiers) relates another accidental meeting in the trenches in France. She writes : A boy of 16 left New Zealand thirteen years ago, and until war broke out he travelled all over the world, without once coining back to New Zealand. On the outbreak of war, however, lie hastened to Great Britain, where Ihe joined a regiment, and since. 10th August, 1914, has been in the firing line, with the exception of ten days last Christmas, which he spent in hospital with a, younger brother, who had left here in one of the early reinforcements, and who has since returned wounded. None of the family knew of the whereabouts of this boy, and it was quite by accident that they met in the trenches in France. The first-mentioned has not got a scratch, and up till May last was quite well. By the way, is he, being a native of New Zcaalnd and having serve-d over three years in the trenches, not entitled to ,i rest, as is proposed' to give the men of the Main Body?"

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