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COLONEL BECOMES HAWKER
PATHETIC ENGLISH CASE. LONDON, Oct. 1. Following on Dr McNamara’s announcement that 20.000 former officers were unemployed, and that many were in very straitened circumstances, comes the pathetic instance of a colonel who was mentioned seven times in despatches, and awarded the D.S.O. He has now been reduced to hawking vegetables to keep his family of seven children. His disablement pension is 4/- a day.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160794, 30 October 1920, Page 5
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68COLONEL BECOMES HAWKER Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160794, 30 October 1920, Page 5
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