GIFT FROM A KING.
CRUMPLED £IOO NOTE. CRIPPLED WARRIOR'S SURPRISE. A crippled soldier at Sheffield received a great surprise when the King and Queen of Afghanistan visited that town. As the roval party was leaving the Town Hall, after lunch, Sergt. A. Harper, late of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, who was lving in a spinal carriage, asked the king for his autograph, holding out an album and a fountain-pen. For a moment the king was puzzled, but then, realising what the sergeant desired, took the album and wrote his signature in Persian characters. With a smile the king shook Harper by the hand and at the same time slipped a crumpled note into it. It. was a £IOO note. "I can hardly believe it," the sergeant Raid afterwards. "It is a fortune to me, and will reliovc me of a great deal of anxiety." Sergeant Harper is an old soldier, having joined the Army originally in 1895. He re-enlisted in 19i4, and was wounded in 1916 at Yprcs, and again in 1918, when his spine was fractured by a piece of shrapnel. He is being taught a trade.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19956, 26 May 1928, Page 12
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190GIFT FROM A KING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19956, 26 May 1928, Page 12
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