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THE CHINA MALL, FEBRUARY 17, 1941.
DIED SAVING PAY SHOW SOVIET
CHEQUE AS THE SHIP SANK
(By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
YOU MIGHT CALL THEM the Royal Navy's Memory Carners. The Navy itself is not so senti- mental. It calls them Reserved Effects Stores - just departments at Fleet depots,
But in these stores are gathered the treasured possessions of officers and men who have died in the war
little trinkets, photographs, letters, cap ribbons, silk handkerchiefs.
In tiny packages which are worth just nothing at all by the standards of the matter-of-fact world, the trinkets and letters and ribbons and photographs are sent to wives, mothers, sweethearts who find them priceless.
They are packages of memories to these women, memories with a touch of heartbreak. Reminders of! happ ness which has gone, but which somehow still proudly lives
073.
There are secrets,
But the Navy's Memory Cor- ners reveal some stories which can be told.
A widow living in the north of England treasures the photo- graphs and odd trinkets left by her son. She knows he died in
action. But she does not know
that her boy gave his life so that his pals, escaping from a sink
Ing ship, might get their pay.
Died For Their Pay
A cheque which found its way Into the Reserved Effects store told the story.
AUDIENCES RECOGNISE HIM
Screen audiences in London are not good at recognising R.A.F. leaders and the applause does not break out until the com- mentator has given the name.
There is one exception. Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill, of the Coastal Command,
as
WRECKED GERMAN AIRCRAFT"
Mr. John Morgan (Soc., Doncaster)" is to ask the Parliamen- tary Secretary to the Ministry of Aircraft Production
"If he will suggest to the competent So- viet Russian authori- ties that it might be in their interests to accept an offer of a conducted tour of the various dumps of wrecked German air- craft scattered throughout this coun- try with a view to such expert note be- ing taken of the types of machine so dealt with and for any other reason they consider worth
may white."
fying weather, Sir Frederick docs
not appear in public.
and storms, be goes off to play When the barometer says gales
tennis, a game at which he expert.
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The photographers, hearing of this, picked a day of tempesta and walted by the tennis court. So Sir Frederick's staff quietly farranged for their chler to play in a match elsewhere that day. He still does not know why he
Once a pay cheque is dispat is often applauded as soon ched technically a crew is pald. his short, vigorous, determined This rating know this. He dash-figure appears on the screen. His was asked to use a different court, cd back to get the cheque se projecting eye-brows are another or that while he was winning his that his shipmates would be clue to recognition.
match, three photographers were saved the bother of special pay claims. The cheque was found in his belt as he lay mortally wounded.
Yet Sir Frederick shuns pub-waiting in the gale by a slacken- licity, and after he had been un-ed tennis net. knowingly illmed for the "March
of Time" recently the news had to be broken gently to him. A young widow has a compact, Sir Frederick's staff, knowing filled with the most expensive his tastes, sometimes quietly ur- beauty aids and gadgets. Now she range to shield him from pub- will never use them. Her hus- licity. band was bringing it home to her? when he died in action, The gift! he sought out to give her a sur- prise now means memories to the girl he loved.
Saved Her Ideal
box
And seamen are so sentimental. In practically every ditty there are silk handkerchiefs, all!) deeply perfumed, bought as sou- venirs thousands of miles from home. And there are bundles of family snaps.
The picture of an Iceland beauty adorned the inside of one ditty box; alongside, looking much nicer and more homely, was the snap of a girl — maybe the girl he had married planned to make his bride. And there are finds which, even among tragedy and heartbreais. bring a smile.
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Such as the diary of the young sailor with the proverbial girl in every port-a careful list of his
conquests all over the world. There were, for instance, Olga in Sydney, Nancy in Colombo, Pearl in Shanghai.
kind.
Other diaries, lacking in that of romance, tell of hard fighting, with heroism between the lines of stories written down with almost schoolboy precision,
Sometimes the men who run these. Memory Corners have saved wives and: sweethearts. from. memories, which, would be bittor.
A kindly captain made suro, that a newly married girl did not learn, from a batch of: lettora kept by hop sailor husband that! she had broken, her-trust, and the | trust of another - Inpacant, girl, too.'
Memory, Corner, RN, holds secrets. That is one of them.
END FIRST-CLASS, SAYS M.P.
Because of overcrowding of suburban trains during rush hours Mr. Parker (Sač,, Romford, Essex) will ask the Minister of Transport
Tempestuous Tennis
MANY-STOREYED SHELTERS
Suggestions for bomb - proof large multi-storeyed reinforced concrete shelters above or below ground in densely-populated areas Three photograpliers recently are made in a letter sent to Mr. learned of his habit of living, not Morrison, Minister for Home by the clock but by the barome | Securitý, by the A.R.P. Co-
When the glass is set for Ordinating Committee.
ter.
From R.A.F.-By
Cupid Air Mail
FLUTTERING TO EARTH from a low-flying R.A.F. 'plane came a well-padded foolscap envelope bearing this legend:-
"Are you a friend of the R.A.F. boys? If you are, please take the enclosed note to the address on its en- velope and oblige the R.A.F. Cupid Air Mail.”
It landed on the roof of a surface; "You'll get someone in a deúce air-raid shelter on the seafront of of a row," said one of them. a West Country town.
None of them had ever heard of Girls climbed on the shoulders the "R.A.F., Cupid Air Mail". of their boy friends in a hectic "That's somebody's idea of a joke,” scramble to reach the envelope | said one. first.
But they know pilots and air It was shown to me by Private crews often drop messages to rela- Roy Bennett, whose sister Bervi tives, or friends. got there first, writes a reporter. He told me
"Lots of: people stood round when we opened the fat on- velope... Inside we found andther long fat envelope, folded length- wise.
“It was, addressed. to· Miss Dorothy Howard, but the chap who throw it out had got the wrong town, for the adtireRS, WILL a street in a town some miles
""When I was at one aerodrome there was a chap who always wanted me to drop a note for his wife when. ↑ iwas likely to fly anywhere near his home town,
"I did it twice, and the first time: she got the lottor Sho wrote saying a woman took it to hør ut tan alalock at-night after finding, thin her gardeni “I'm afraid it's not a very re- liable kind of air mail, for the notes are just as likely to fall on "Beryl did not know what to do roof tops as on the ground." about it, and suggested we put it in.. the post, but a man in the crowd said he would be going to business later in the day and would take it to the address.
down the coast.
To His Wife
on.
to ask the Railway Executive Com. When I talked to a group of mittee to abolish first-class carri- | R.A.F. officers about the Cupid air nges,
mail they were suspicious.
BOMB INJURES V.C.
Colonel, W. E. Gordon, V; C., CBE, late of the Gordon High- landers, and Major A. Crozier, were rescued badly injured after being trapped in the bombed house in London.
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- Colonel Gordon, who is seventy- four; won the VC in South Africa,