Anzac Day: The pregnancy, the wartime call-up and the love letter thrown from the train
23 Apr, 2021 06:00 PM
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Isabella and Charlie Anderton s wedding photo, Waipukurau, June 1943. Photo / Supplied
Hawke s Bay woman Isabella Anderton, young and in love, said goodbye to her husband six times, expecting him to be sent off to serve in World War II. But after the half-a-dozen times on final leave, when the time came for Charlie Anderton to actually depart and join the war effort in Egypt, there was no time to say goodbye.
Isabella, now 99, would have had no idea he had gone were it not for Charlie s quick thinking in throwing a letter out of the train as it left the Palmerston North platform, and a healthy dose of luck.
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