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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4905, 26 June 1918, Page 5

In a letter to his parents at West Maitland Corporal Len Crutch writes from France. “The place we are in is a little village nestling in a hollowsurrounded by trees and although it is close to the line of Fritz’s advance the people are still here. There is something to tell of why they stayed hack, and it made me feel prornl of being an Australian. These people were all packing up and making readv to flee, when we marched m and halted for a rest before going up to the line. Back went their bundles cmd an old woman, overcome with spoke to our. platoon sergeant, sa |a ‘Everything tres bon now fhe men with the big hats have come™ It touched one to hear that from the poor old lady, and I bad to walk awav with a lump m my throat 'The Frenchhave great Shin the Australians.. Fritz s ofa Sid English armies , He has not got as farhß intiGnusci. ; Protection is needed atithe Front bv vonr soldier boy. A bullet-proof hodv shield is the very thing to proS this. It, has been tried and nt has 'given satisfaction- Pnc e 77s 6d, Severed free to any soldier in war SSp.-Box 657, Christchurch.*