BRIGADIER MILES
Wife Working In London LONDON, April 7. Mrs Georgette Miles, wife of Brigadier Miles, is working happily to-day for the Merchant Navy Comforts Fund in London, after receiving confirmation from New Zealand of her husband’s escape with Brigadier Hargest. Mrs Miles two days ago received a letter from her husband from a prison camp. He said he was learning carpentry to pass the time, and added: "Our hosts descended on us the other day to demand all our jewellery except watches and wedding rings. We will be given a receipt and the jewellery’ will be kept in the Bank of Italy until after the war.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22553, 10 April 1943, Page 6
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107BRIGADIER MILES Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22553, 10 April 1943, Page 6
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