KEEN "OLD SOLDIERS"
THREE LANCASHIRE V.C.'s Three Lancashire lads who each won the V.C. in the last war have declared they are ready for "another packet." They are Manchester V.C.'s of the Great War. Two of them, Sergeant George Stringer, of the Ist Manchester Regiment, and Corporal Jack White, of, the King's Liverpool Regiment, are "grousing" because they are too old for tlie Army. The third, Major Harry Kelly, of the West Ridings, now landlord <i>f the Liverpool Arms Hotel, Beaumaris, Anglesey, has applied to the War Office for enrolment in the Officers' Reserve. "I'm 50 and they won't take me at any price, though .1 still think I could do my bit," is ex-Sergeant Stringer's "grouse." Ho works at the Manchester G.P.O. and is known as 'the Postman V.C.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23507, 18 November 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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