THREE NAMES

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11030, 31 December 1928, Page 2

THREE NAMES

DIGGER IN A.I.F. Tlie case of a Digger who enlisted in the A.1.F., uncler an assumed name, 'who returned to Australia and was discharged, and who reenlisted under another assumed name, is told in Reveille, the official organ of the New South Wales branch of the Returned Soldiers’ .League. The reason of his having used an assumed name for his first enlistment the digger told the League was that liis parents declined to consent to his joining up on the ground that he was too young, and that three of his brotheis were already in the army. As a member of the 4th Battalion, the Digger was wounded on Gallipoli, and on being invalided home to Australia was discharged medically unfit. Later on his health improved, and when he went to Victoria Barracks to re-enlist, under the assumed name that he had given previously, he was told that he would he accepted if he avoided any reference to his army discharge, which mentioned his medical unfitness. He then re-enlisted under another assumed name, was drafted to the 3rd Machine Gun Company, and served with it until the end of the war. The league believes that this case is a record, though there have been numerous instances of a man having enlisted under one assumed name.