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LBERT
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gome men do their medals, his pension, to prove the part he played in the war. The war had taken him to West Africa, and there be contracted an ill-
ness you may as easily come by in Ladbroke Grove as in Lagos.
It took himn sume Lime to establish his right to a pension, but early this year the country acknowledged a nited respon sibility for Albert's illness. The be authorities agreed he should pald 21s, $d, a week. They did more. They said: "If you lost a day's work coming to hospitul for treatment, we will pay you -up to 30. n day."
Albert was pleased,
still felt the country miserly benefactor,
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LBERT is a fair-haired man i A of
Illness 31. The
112 suffers from is one that is not Many people endure it in silence, but that
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was
Albert's way.
"Get it in West Africa," he would say, "the whe.... would hint at the heroisin.
He
He told his employerS that need every so often he would
to have a day oft lo Ju to for treatment. 'The hospital war, you know ..." he said.
Albert's employers he worked for them as a warehouseman- being generous people, said that they would not dock him day's pay for the days he went to hospital.
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