Extraordinary Story.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10908, 28 May 1929, Page 5

Extraordinary Story.

n Oil AX SERVES IN THE WAR

MEMOIR FOUND AFTER DEATH

LONDON, May 1. inquiries which were made after the recovery front the Thames of the body of Minnie Drewett, aged -50, born at Edinburgh, who was employed as a cook at Richmond and London hotels, elicited the fact that she had told friends sh e was wounded in the war while serving as a private with the Australian forces. She had informed others that she was wounded while with the Women’s Auxiliary Aid Corps. Miss Drewett left a memoir in which she stated that she was the daughter of • a bootmaker whom Queen Victoria frequently commanded to come to Balmoral. She quarrelled with her parents, and travelled the world. She then became a cook at Aldershot, hut the officer married, and she again, sought work. She was with her family at Fremantle when win wlas declared. She offered herself as a cook at the Australian Recruiting Office, where the medical examination was perfunctory. “1 went in as a woman trembling in the unaccustomed male attire, and came out. strutting in khaki uniform, as 180802, Private George Drewett.”