It is a Canadian soldier "who tells this story, and the responsibility for it. must rest upon him. One or his friends, he says, who was in hospital in .London, was not expected to live, and the medical officer broke the distressing news to him. The patient, f.® a / J ast request, said -he would like O, Canada ' to tie sung to him by the Canadian Minstrel Choir before he went West." , This was arranged. The next morning the M.O. asked the nurse if the man has passed away. "No, sir, was the reply. "The singing of those minstrels did him good; but all the other patients died.'.'
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16479, 24 March 1919, Page 8
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