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MAJOR ENTERS
MONASTERY
Colonel Becomes
Policeman
"The Age" Special Correspondent
in London.
A wealthy ex-major of the
last war is about to -become a
monk, and a lieutenant-colonel of
this war is about to become a
police constable.
Fifty-year-old Major Charles
Verner, called by his friends "the
perfect host," yesterday left his
fiat at Brighton (he had already
given up his expensively fur
nished house, one of the show
places of Sussex), packed a few
personal belongings in a suit case,
and drove off in a baby car to
become a member of the Brother
hood of Alton Abbey, Hampshire.
"I spent five months , there to
see if it suited me; I li-ed it, and
I am going back; good-bye," he
said as he left.
The policeman is Lieutenant-
Colonel Ronald Rowbottom, 29,
who on being "demobbed" is re
turning to his beat in Southport,
Lancashire. He was a former
regular soldier, and Joined up
again in 1939 as a gunner.
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