1941-01-04 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 4, 1941

MUTT AND JEFFTM

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ANNIVERSARY!

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MY FRIENDS, OUR MARRIED LIFE HAS BEEN ONE PERPETUAL HONEYMOON!, WE'RE STILL JUST LIKE A COUPLE

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BEN'S

DAD IS

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suburb to Cornwall. While there he's been hearing about some daring ex- ploits by his forty-year- old dad, Benny Sexton,

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Young Benny didn't see why his dad's bravery should go unsung, the to write to he decided newspapers about it.

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Here is his letter wrote it:

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just as he

i want to tell you about my Daddie.

I was reading about the Acts of Heroism In your Paper. Well here is one more. My Daddie Went Into My Nanas (grand- mother's) House And carried from down stairs, a huge bomb, and put it in the gutter, and then covered it with Sand. The Police said it was the big gest they've seen.

You can Imagine how heavy it was for My Father, as he as been Wounded In the Arm several times in the LAST WAR,

Yours Respectfully,

Benny Sexton. Jnr.

Carried Bomb Down

Young Benny heard the story from his grandmother, who is stiil living in London.

mine,"

Benny's

"The bomb fell on the house next door to grandmother told a reporter. "My son (Benny senior) and I had just returned from a shelter.

"My son ran in the house and We word all went upstairs. amazed to see him come down with the bomb in his arms and put it in the gutter.

"A few days before that he had

helped to get some people out of a house hit by an incendiary bomb."

Letter To Grandma

Mr. Sexton, senior, was a book- binder who became unemployed when war broke out.

His summing-up of the ex- ploit which transformed him in- to a hero. In his little son's eyes was: "It's nice to bo handy about the place."

He did not know about Benny's letter but Benny's grandmother received a letter from the young evacuee which said:

"By the way Daddie's story has not been published, but I will see it is.”

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