SOLDIERS FROM EGYPT

Evening Star, Issue 24054, 28 November 1941, Page 8

SOLDIERS FROM EGYPT

LEAVE TO ATTEND URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 27. A party of Expeditionary : Eoroe; soldiers who are stated to have been given leave to attend to urgent private affairs has arrived in Auckland from the Middle East. The party-includes Sergeant W. Hanley, of Auckland, whose three young children were left without a guardian to care for them, when his wife died in September. A request'was made to the Government for Sergeant Hanley to be granted leave to arrange for his children’s welfare. After a first refusal the Government took steps to ask Middle East Headquarters to grant the requisite leave. Other soldiers who returned were: — Major P. N. Cryer (Wellington), Captain 0. J. Hutqhison (Hokitika), Captain O. Jones (Rotorua), Lieutenant T. A. Mead (Blenheim), Secondlieutenant A. A. E. Broad (Westport), Second-lieu tenant A. G. M. Holmes (Hawke’s Bay), Cadet Officer M. B. Dawson (Wellington), Sergeant-major T. Whalley (Petone), Corporal E. B. Topp (Wellington), Lance-corporal (R.’ Si Dixon (Geraldine), Lance-corporal P. L. Hansen (Waimate), Lance-cor-poral W. J. White (Invercargill), Gunner 0. T. Climio (Christchurch). Privates W. P. ißlewitf (Christchurch), G. Cummings (Christchurch), J. E. Herlihy (Porirua), R. Howarth (Auckland), E, Pitman (Whangarei), A. J. (Ryan Hastings), and A. J. Haslemore (Riverton). On arrival the soldiers were met by officers of the sick and wounded branch aiid were medically ■ boarded and Xrayed. Those for the south were attended to as quickly as possible to enable them to catch travel connections, and they were able to leave to-night.