“Verey” Lights as Escorts
liow lit' was escorted to :i pnrty 1»y * ‘ vercv ’ ’ lights is do scribed in a let tor to friends in Auckland bv a sol dLer in the Middle .Mast. Pals in anolli<«r regiment rang him about eight o’c’ock one night and invited him to join in the fun. He writes: (> l wasu I too happy about their location in relation to my own. and said as much. A very inebriated voice said: ‘Siio trouble. In shixty-one shoconds we’ll put up a light.' Followed an nnmelodifins chanting of numbers up to (50, them the word ‘Fire.’ A green vere.v light flared up on the horizon and T was off. They put one up at threeminute intervals until t arrived that’s hospitality for you! But it wasn’t so easy finding my way home.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXII, Issue 8873, 17 February 1943, Page 3
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