SOLDIER’S MESSAGE
BOTTLE FROM TROOPSHIP Cast overboard from a troopship on January 7, a bottle containing a message from one of the soldiers of t e first echelon of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force was found above high tide mark on Munwai Beach last week. It was recovered two months after it had been thrown overboard, and during that time it must have been caught by a current travelling up toward the coast from somewhere in the Tasman Sea. Inside the bottle was an envelope which had previously been addressed to “J. A. Warren, 4th Company, 4th Battalion, Scottish Machine-Gunners, Burnham." On the back of the envelope was written: “This bottle was thrown off a troopship on the 7th January, 1940, by J. A. Warren, No. 8813. Cheerio.” One the side the writer had added: “Between Australia and New Zealand with the New Zealand troops.”
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Grey River Argus, 14 March 1940, Page 12
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146SOLDIER’S MESSAGE Grey River Argus, 14 March 1940, Page 12
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