SOLDIER LOSES MEMORY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20450, 3 July 1928, Page 9

SOLDIER LOSES MEMORY

REMARKABLE CASE IN SYDNEY. WIFE MARRIES SECOND TIME. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, July 2. (Received July 2, at 11 pun.) The Returned Soldiers’ League is investigating the casf of a returned soldier who states that he served with the British Army in the war, then migrated with his wife and six children to Dunedin. The soldier states that his mind has been a blank for four and a half years, and he now finds himself in. Sydney without knowing how he came here. He sent a statement to the league in which he says he remembers leaving Dunedin to look for employment. His last recollection of his wife and family is seeing them in 1920 or 1921. He knew he was in Sydney in 1922, but seemed to live in a haze, and it was only by degrees things came back. When he came to full realisation in 1924 he was scared, as he was convinced that nobody would believe his story, and he was afraid he would be charged with desertion and be sent to gaol. He decided to wait in Sydney until he had earned enough money to send for his wife and family. The league got into communication with the New Zealand Association, _ and discovered that the wife, after waiting six and a-half years, married again, but the marriage was an unhappy one, and she-is now separated. * In a letter the wife asks the soldier to return, and the league is consulting a solicitor, who will advise the husband and wife as to their legal position.—Australian Press Association.