ADVENTUROUS CAREER
NEW ZEALAND AIRMAN IN SPAIN SURPRISE FOR PARENTS (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. The last news his parents had of their son, Eric N. Griffiths, who was wounded in an aerial fight with Spanish rebels ’planes was that he had entered the British Army. He had his 21st birthday in the Antarctic and his 23rd in Spain. He is a son of Mr and Mrs W. Griffiths, of Eastbourne. The first intimation of their son’s adventure came as a surprise. Mr Griffiths, who was riding in an Eastbourne bus, and after reading the newspaper account of the Spanish war passed the paper to his companion. “Is this your son who has been wounded in Spain?” the reader asked. “I don’t think' so,” said Mr Griffiths, who had overlooked the cable concerning his son. Then he looked and found it was.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 5 October 1936, Page 5
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143ADVENTUROUS CAREER Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 5 October 1936, Page 5
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