A SOLDIER'S HARDSHIP
TO THB SDIIOB,
Sir,—Referring to the article appearing in your issue of last evening bearing ' the above heading, I desire, on behalf of the Director of Military Hospitals and myself, to. merely state that the army record of the soldier referred to as having served for eighteen months in France and suffered severe concussion as the result of injuries shows that ho saw no active service whatever. Leaving New Zealand on "15th August, 1917, he disembarked in the Old Country on 2nd October, 1917, he marched into Sling Camp on the following day, and on 29th of the same month he was found unfit by a medical board for active service by reason of being over age. He was then detailed to the Discharge Depot at Torquay for return to New Zealand, sailing by the first available vessel following on 10th January, 1918. This information v>ill probably assist the general public in understanding the case as reported. —I am, etc., G. C. FACHE, Commissioner of Pensions. 7th August.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 33, 7 August 1918, Page 8
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171A SOLDIER'S HARDSHIP Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 33, 7 August 1918, Page 8
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