New Plymouth now lays claim to possessing the youngest soldier who served in the Sew Zealand Expeditionary Force. It is
said the lad, who is remarkably well-grown for his age, enlisted-when 14, had three and a-half years' service in Egypt and France,
Swas wounded twice, and returned to Ne"W Zealand just as he reached his nineteenth year.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3415, 29 August 1919, Page 16
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