WILDING'S RISKY TASK.
HE TOOK THE CHANCE. SPORTSMAN TO THE END. LONDON. July :io. Officers state that Anthony Wilding, the lawn tennis champion, who was recently killed in France, was ill charge of a three-pounder. He directed the firinjj from early morniiifj to the middle <>f the afternoon', when lie entered a dug-out. Tic- was killed an hour later. The official report spoke highly of his work. In his la-it letter, written on the day of hi-< death. Wilding said that for the first time in seven and a-htilf mouths he had v job likely to end in his gun and himself being blown to pieces. However, it was .a sporting chance. Ji he succeeded it would help the infantry no end.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 181, 31 July 1915, Page 6
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122WILDING'S RISKY TASK. Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 181, 31 July 1915, Page 6
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