BILL BROWN”
m 5 APPOINTMENT WITH DUKE' PROUD RETURNED SOLDIER STANTHOIiPE (Q-), Bee. 3. Among the returned men who paraded at Stanthorpe for the welcome to the Duke there was an elderly man who wore a. double row of medals, which caught the eye of His Royal Highness. Chatting with the proud wearer of all the medals, the Duke learned from him that he, in common with his son, had served in the Great War, but that the son had been, killed and that he consequently was proud on that occasion to display his boy's medals as we'll as his own, '.'l would like to have a talk to you sometime, sir," said the Digger. "Why not majko it Monday morning, then?" said the Duke in an equally friendly way. i ''O.K., sir,'' replied, the Digger, who is know locally simply as "Bill" Brown.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18582, 17 December 1934, Page 10
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