11 Lonely Soldiers Among N.Z. Troops In United Kingdom

Northern Advocate, 3 January 1941, Page 3

11 Lonely Soldiers Among N.Z. Troops In United Kingdom

(Per Press Association. Copyright .] WELLINGTON, This Day.

In response to an inquiry, the National Patriotic Fund Board has received from its overseas commissioner (Lieut.-Colonel F. Waite) a preliminary list of names and other particulars of 11 men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the United Kingdom whom chaplains consider get neither letters nor parcels sent to them individually, and who might rightly be classed as lonely soldiers. The board made the inquiries so as to be .able to pass on the names of genuine lonely soldiers to -people in this country who are willing to write to them. No List Frcm Egypt. A similar inquiry was addressed to the board’s representative with the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East, but although advice has been received that the matter is receiving attention, to date a list has not been received from this quarter. The secretary of the board, Mr G. A. Hayden, said yesterday he knew from inquiries made earlier that there were people only too willing to write and send individual parcels to lonely soldiers to supplement parcels sent forward by the board. The names of such men, as they were received from the board’s representatives, would be made available on application to persons who were prepared to render this valuable service, which would, he felt sure, be appreciated by the men concerned.