TIME HANGS HEAVILY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 301, 21 December 1945, Page 5

TIME HANGS HEAVILY

N.Z. FORCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

(P.A.) Wellington, Dec. 20 While some of the younger men are cnthusiasiic about the prospect of going to Japan, older hands of the division had not been so keen to volunteer Find we.e more interested in the prospect of getting home, said Major Rev. J. A. Somerville, M.C., who returned by the Mooltan. With the cessation of hostilities there was a tremendous difference in the division and time hangs heavily on the men’s hands. The spirit had gone out of things and the men were not looking forward to the prospect of the Italian winter. Among those aboard was Coui - lander, who came out in custody to serve a sentence of 15 years for aiding the Germans. Mrs Upham, wife of Captain Upham. V.C., arrived in the unifoim of the British Red Cross in which she had been serving overseas, and was met by her husband. She went to France with a special commission shortly after the British landing and was the first woman to cross the Rhine after the hospital personnel.