TALL GUARDS RECRUIT
OVER SFT. IN BEARSKIN
LONDON, March 2.
Christopher Edwards, over Bft. tall in a bearskin, astonished recruiters for the Coldstream Guards at Newcastle. He is 26 years of age and weighs 14 stone. He was working as a hotel cook when he decided that he would have better prospects with the regiment.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 5
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55TALL GUARDS RECRUIT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 5
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