BLINDED RETURNED SOLDIER
Training In Institute
Believed to be the only New Zea land, soldier so far invalided home blinded in the present war, Mr C H Humphries. Carterton, is now in the New Zealand Institute'for the Blind which he entered some weeks ago. Mr Humphries, who -is single, was formerly employed in the freezing works at Waingawa. near Masterton He left New Zealand with the First Echelon • The injury which caused his blindness was not due to enemy action, but to an explosion in a parcel of detonators as he -was lifting it from a truck in August of last year. After hospital treatment he was sent home with a draft which arrived in Feb ruary.
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Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 91, 26 September 1941, Page 7
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117BLINDED RETURNED SOLDIER Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 91, 26 September 1941, Page 7
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