TWO MORE LONELY SOLDIERS
REQUEST FROM INDIAN FRONTIER CORRESPONDENTS SOUGHT IN DOMINION ‘ Evening Star ’ readers will recall the request made for correspondents some time ago on behalf of a lonelv New Zealand soldier, and the splendid response that was made. Now the mayor (Mr A. H. Allen) has received a letter from two soldiers stationed on the north-west frontier of India who are seeking correspondents here. They write: “This is a very unusual request, but having no one in New Zealand that we could write to., we thought that this would be the best way to get in touch with your part of the British Empire. “ There must be some of the men from your country who are at present in England. They are making friends with the people there. We wish to do the same with their people, only we being out here, it will have to be by correspondence. . “ We are two lonely soldiers in the Royal Artillery, stationed on the N.W. frontier of India* and we have a lot of time to write letters. Would you please help to get some pen friends. We can give quite an interesting account of what happens ou the frontier and are willing to send snaps to all who write to us.” The two men are; Driver Reg. Norman (who is 25) and Sig. Jack Davis (20), “ A ” Troop, West Field Bty., Field Regt., N.W.F.P., India.
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Evening Star, Issue 23753, 7 December 1940, Page 12
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