REUNION OF BROTHERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23690, 23 December 1938, Page 13

REUNION OF BROTHERS

Dungaree, in Australia, is not only famed for its potato-growing propensities, but can also claim distinction as the birthplace of a family of policemen. Last month the Calwell brothers, horn and bred in Dungaree held a reunion in Melbourne. Five of them are or have been policemen The second eldest. Davis L Calwell is a senior sergeant at Auckland and is now on leave in Melbourne He had not se c n his brothers in Victoria for 23 years Next is Charles a former constable in the New Zealand Police Force and now a warder in Victoria Allan Calwell is a senior constable attached to the police ‘raffic control branch at Melbourne, and Archibald is a senior constable at South Melbourne. William Calwell. the eldest, is a constable in New Zealand, but could not reach Melbourne for the reunion, but the gathering was attended by Henry Calwell. who is the only one of the brothers who has not served in blue. Henry Calwell, however, demonstrated the qualities of the family when he received a splinter of shell in his lung durin<* the war He carried it in his lung for 19 years Then he decided to carry the burden no longer and underwent a successful operation Senior Constable Allen Calwell was wounded when attempting to arrest an armed lunatic at Dallarat in 1913. The revolver bullet went through his right, cheek and mouth, and lodged in the left side of his neck. It was removed by Sir George Syme. one of the world’s most celebrated surgeons