LOSS OF MEMORY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19941, 30 May 1930, Page 3

LOSS OF MEMORY.

AFTER VISIT TO BATTLEFIELDS. irauu. ouk owj( cobsbsPospjEnt.; LONDON, April 24. At Easter a number of ex-soldiers visited the battlefields of France and Belgium. A party was inspecting the Hangard Wood, on the Somine, when one of the men noticed the spot where he had been wounded. He drifted away from his comrades (writes an Amiens correspondent) and was found that night wandering in the streets of Amiens. Passers-by noticed that he was limping badly. Unable to obtain any information frym him, although they addressed him in English, they took him to the police, where M. Martel, the Police Commissary, called in Mr Oswald, the British Vice-Consul, and together they questioned him. The man did not know his name, and was unable to say anything be r yond the fact that the wound in his leg wac* hurting him badly. His sockets were searched, and in them were found papers in the name of James Sidney, born at Oxford on Juno 21st, 1890. and living at St. Clement's street. Oxford He also had a railway ticket from London to Amiens, via Folkestone and Boulogne. The Vice-Consul forwarded a report to the Foreign Office.