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THE LATE Const. Harold Calvert, whose
picture appears in this issue in The Glim
Peddlers, served as a pilot officer in the
Royal Air Force. Shot down over Ger-
many, he forfeited his life in attempting to
escape from his Nazi captors.

The following tribute was received by his
bereaved wife:

Gepruft 46
June 18th, 1942
Dear Mrs. Calvert:

As the senior British Officer in this camp
and on behalf of all the officers and
N.C.O.’s and men, I wish to convey to you
our very heartfelt sympathy on your hus-
band’s death. As you know he was making

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a brave attempt to escape from his captivity
and met his fate in the early morning of
the 20th of May. However, I know from his
companion, Sergt. Sugden, that he was
killed instantly and therefore felt no pain.
I never had the honour of meeting your
gallant husband but the reports that I have
received of him clearly indicate that he was
a man with his own strict code of honour
and possessing great personal courage. In
making his attempt to escape he was living
up to the traditions of his forefathers to
whom security and safety meant nothing, if
it did not tally with their sense of duty and
love of adventure. Therefore, although in
honourable captivity, duty called and he
answered it.

I would be pleased if you would convey
our sincere sympathy to your husband's
mother in Canada.

Yours very sincerely,
H. M. A. Day,
Wing Commander.

THE clerk of a North Coast (N.S.W.)
shire in his monthly report recommended a
bridge be constructed over a creek in a re-
mote part. One of the councillors was in-
dignant and interjected: “I object to a
bridge being built over such a narrow creek;
why, I could spit halfway across!”

The President: “I would like to remind
the councillor that he is out of order.”

“Out of order!” came heatedly from the
councillor. “Blimey, if I were in good order
I could spit right across that creek!”

IN a small church a child was to be baptized.
The young minister, taking the infant in his
arms, said: “Beloved hearers, no one can
foretell the future of this little child. He
may grow up to be a great business man like
Henry Ford, or a great politician; and it is
possible he might become the Prime Min-
ister of England.” Turning to the mother,
he enquired: “‘What is the name of the
child?”
“Mary Ann,” was the reply.

“SAY grace, Mary, there’s a dear,” said
the hostess to the little girl evacuee, as they
sat down to dinner.

For a moment Mary was floored. Then
her eyes lit up. Drooping her head and plac-
ing her hands together, she murmured
reverently: “Praise the Lord and pass the
ammunition.”

1/C CONSTABLE: “Do you know what
the Commissioner said to me when I asked
him to make me a Sergeant?”

Constable: “No.”

1/C Constable: “Who told you?”

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