BLANK YEARS

Northern Advocate, 3 July 1928, Page 5

BLANK YEARS

RETURNED SOLDIER’S LAPSE

WIFE MARRIED AGAIN,

LEAGUE INVESTIGATION. (Australian Press Association.) (Received 8.31 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Returned Soldiers' League is investigating the case of a returned soldier who states that he served with the British Army in the Great War and then migrated with his wife and six children to Dunedin, The ox-soldier states that his mind has been blank for four and a half years, and ho now finds himself in Sydney without knowing how lie came here. He sent a statement to the League, in which he says ho remembers leaving Dunedin to look for employment. His last recollection of his wife and family is seeing them in 1930 or 1931. Ho knew he was in Sydney in 1933, but seemed to live in a haze, and it \ was only by degrees that things came - back. When.he came to full realisation in 1924 he was seared, as he was convinced ithat nobody would believe his story, and he was afraid lie would be charged with desertion and be sent to gaol. He decided to wait in Sydney until he had earned enough money to send for his wife and family. The League got into communication with the Now Zealand Association and discovered that the wife, after waiting six and a half years, had remarried, but unhappily, and was now separated. In a letter the wife asks the exsoldier to return. The League is consulting a solicitor, who will advise the husband and wife as to their legal position.