BALLOTED EX-SOLDIERS
Sir, —Like "Old Digger" and "Old Dink" I desire to compliment the Whangarei Branch of the R.S.A. in approaching the Dominion Executive of tlio Returned Soldiers' Association to appeal to the Government for exemption of returned soldiers from compulsory military service. When one reads of the five or six thousand able-bodied young men who have appealed against military service through one pretext or another, it, looks a bit tough if the soldier who went away in his teens to the last war is to be forced to join the colours. There is no doubt that those who sallied forth so young and helped to stop the German hordes found it far harder to establish themselves financially and socially on their return to their homeland. They went away as boys, and thfl only occupation they knew on their return was as a soldier, and I would like to see the Dominion executive battle for those same gallant returned soldiers today. I believo that those who are still of age would again join the colours, rather than appeal, because as volunteers 25 years ago they abhor the thought of having to appeal. Anotitkr Dink.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24024, 23 July 1941, Page 4
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194BALLOTED EX-SOLDIERS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24024, 23 July 1941, Page 4
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