WHITE FEATHERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 November 1939, Page 11

WHITE FEATHERS

CAMPAIGN IN ENGLAND. LONDON, October 14. The white feather campaign has begun in England. The first recipients are two English peers. The white feathers arrived one day this week by first post in identical blue registered envelopes, one for Lord Waleran of Bradfield, Devonshire, the other for Lord Sandhurst at his place in Sheringham, Norfolk. Lord Valeran, 34, a brilliant track driver, declared delightfully: “I’ve just received a white feather. Jimmy Sandhurst has got one too. He’s going to frame it alongside the one an old lady gave him in Bond Street in 1916 when he was on leave from the front.

“Jimmy was in the last show from 1914 on. He ended up as a despatch rider. Once he had five motor-cycles shot under him in 24 hours.” Lord Waleran, who was once a. lieutenant. in a gunner Territorial regiment, applied several weeks ago for a commission in the R.A.F. He holds an “A” flying license. While waiting he became a mobile police officer —in fact a despatch ridqr under military orders. Lord Sandhurst is also a mobile police officer, and equally anxious to get to France at the earliest opportunitv. He is 47. When he was 22 he enlisted in the Royal Engineers Signal Service, war, given his commission a month later, was mentioned in despatches and became a captain.