ADVENTURES IF A FLAG.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16472, 15 March 1919, Page 11

ADVENTURES IF A FLAG.

The following extract is from a letter dated November ISth. 191S, written fcv the adjutant of the Ist Battalion* Cheshire I?egiment:— "On Sunday afternoon I had tli® honour of going over with tho manding officer to a place near 3J"9 n t s to recolve l,ack the battalion flag, whicli had boen lost at Mons in 1914. It has ouitc a history attached to it. The drummer who carried it in the retreat was severely wounded, and afterwards died. He handed it over to another drummer, who was also wounded, but. in spit.> of this ho dashed into a loft and hid it under some corn. On being taken to tiie Belgium Convent to have n bis wounds dressed, ho asked the sister , there to get somebody to recover the flac and put it in a safer place. At the risk of their lives the cure and the schoolmaster woat and found the flag, and hid it in their trousers. The Huns had heard about tho flag, and searchod all the houses tor live days. The cure kept it first in his house—then behind the choir stalls in the church —then handed it over to the mairc. who had kept it ever since. We saw them all— t the cure, the sister of the hospital, and ' the schoolmaster.''