Mexborough and Swinton Times, February 25, 1927

The  Austrian Revolution was recalled in a Wombwell home the other day, when one of the many refugees, Karolin Turnai, aged 14, returned to her own country, to the great sorrow of Mr and Mrs Coulson, of 24, Cemetery Road, Wombwell.

Karolin came to England when she was seven years old, as one of the 500 Hungarian children for whom the British Salvation Army agreed to find homes until order and security were restored in their own country.

Mr Coulson is a prominent member of the Wombwell Corps of the Salvation Army, and he and his wife have grown very fond of the little girl, who is a lovable child and a general favourite.

She has taken quite an active part in the work of the Salvation Army, and has been a Sunday school teacher and a “songster.” She learned to speak English fluently, and attended the Barnsley Road School at Wombwell. While in the district she also learned to swim at the public baths. Since her arrival in England, Karolin has visited her parents in Hungary on two occasions, but has always returned to her English home.

This time, however, Mr Coulson expects that she will remain with their mother, who is seriously ill. Mrs Coulson travelled to London with her, and a telegram from Budapest has announced her safe arrival.

Karolin herself has grown very attached to her life in Wombwell, and the party was a sad one for her as well as for Mr and Mrs Coulson, who, having no children of their own, had adopted the little waif.

“No one could help loving her”, said Mr Coulson to a representative of the “Times”, “and she has been a great blessing to us. She went all over with my wife; the two were never separated and my wife feels her leaving very much.”