" Truth'f " Tribute.

NZ Truth, Issue 580, 29 July 1916, Page 5

" Truth'f " Tribute.

To the National Need

F. J. Dawson, junr., son of tho man-aging-editor of thin paper, went int3 Trentham Camp with the non-coms, for tho 2lßt ReinforoemcntH on Tuesday. Joining the TurritorlaU at tho inception of. . Kitchener's scheme for teaching the young of New Zealand how to shoot, ho graduated to the rank of sergeant-major In tho Signal Corpn. Ho wan a member of "Truth's" staff, having recently completed his apprenticeship. Ex-members of "Truth's" staff who have offered their services to King and country and whose sorvle<-« have been accepted are Sergeant V, H. Wnddy, 13. A.. barrister-at-law. and Messrs. H. JCvans and F. McComlHh. A number of men from the various staffs of "Truth" m the Status of tho Commonwealth have enlisted. Home aro making their mark m tho military world, others (alas!) will return to the inky way no more. So far, members of tho Htutt of Porth and Hrlsbano "Truth" have flrtnl their last shot, and sleep somewhere- on the slopes of aalllpoll. All who h::vo gon« from other olllces report good prugrcsf, and tho last bulletin of battlo xhows that Mr. O. Rhodes (oralwhilo of Sydney "Truth's" literary staff), who enlisted among the first batches of tho A.I.F. as a private, is now cnlaf of General Ulrdwood's corresponding; staff, with tho rank of Sergeant -mujnr, H has been noted that Mr.twood's deapatches aro particularly ck>.ir cud truthful. Clarence Crawford, a immnber of the staff of Brisbnno "Truth," wnn recently "mentioned m despatches" by Gonernl Maxwell for JlßtlnguSJihud service m the Army Medical Corp*,.