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Anzac Day: The pregnancy, the wartime call-up and the love letter thrown from the train

Anzac Day: The pregnancy, the wartime call-up and the love letter thrown from the train 23 Apr, 2021 06:00 PM 4 minutes to read 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.

Girls take to the skies in Defence Force programme

Maxine Jacobs/Stuff Flight Sergeant Brendon Pugh, left, shows Holly Inglis and Alexis Usal how to a wheel to a Grumman aircraft. At 3 Squadron, Holly Inglis, 17 was fitting a wheel onto a Grumman alongside Alexis Usal, 17, and Flight Sergeant Brendon Pugh. The four flights, made up of 10 girls each, had been rebuilding the plane from scratch since Monday. Inglis had some experience with tools, working with her family in the garage at home, but never on a plane. Knowing she would have to leave school at the end of this year, she had been weighing up her options at university. Over the course of the week-long School to Skies experience, a pilot or a loadmaster seemed like a good fit.

Where to find Anzac services in Manawatū and Rangitīkei

Where to find Anzac services in Manawatū and Rangitīkei
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