FRIEND OF SOLDIERS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20422, 12 February 1938, Page 8

FRIEND OF SOLDIERS

WOMAN WAR WORKER MAINTAINED A DOSS HOUSE f (By Telegram.—rres* Association) AUCKLAND, Saturday. Known to thousands of Dominioi troops through her untiring efforts ant generosity in maintaining at her owi expense a doss hou«e and rest-hom for soldiers at Boulogne during th< war. *Mrs D’Arcv Hildyard, who arrives by the Rangitiki this- morning. is re membered as one of the outstandim English women workers of the wa period. Among the 275,0 n troops who pgn •ed through my rest-house during th war th * New Zealanders were the bes dterlplfm d and the smartest and in m; opinion wfie the cream of tin* Empir t•. <.p*. * she said. “They were of fin. V Mrs Hildyard was the first wom.ll in France t.. be mentioned in the lat< Karl Haig * despatches an d was award ed the 1914 Mens Medal. <he hand*-, over a large part of her estate ii North Yorkshire to the Government t< form Gatterick Camp, which has sine been developed into a permanent train Jug .entre for the British Army.