BROTHERS' REUNION
Three brothers, Frederick, Clarence and Allen Oliver, who are serving with the New Zealand Forces overseas, met for the first time in five years recently in the Middle East, when Messrs Fred and Allen Oliver paid a visit to their brother in hospital. Mr Allen Oliver was in Australia two years prior to tho outbreak of the war and he joined the Colours there, while the other two went overseas with one of the first groups to leave the Dominion. Mr Clarence Oliver saw service in Greece and Crete, being wounded in the latter campaign. Ho was discharged from hospital after a lengthy period and has since taken part in further operations, hut is now back in hospital. Mr Fred Oliver was for some time engaged in photographic work and his duties necessitated his travelling thousands of miles over the desert, collecting cinematograph films of operations. Mrs A. V. Oliver, of Cook Str?et, ' Palmerston North, mother of the three boys, was delighted to learn of the reunion in a letter she had received.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 253, 24 September 1942, Page 2
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175BROTHERS' REUNION Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 253, 24 September 1942, Page 2
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