MOTHER LOSES FIVE SONS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLIII, Issue 88, 15 May 1917, Page 8

MOTHER LOSES FIVE SONS.

EXEMPTION NOT SOUGHT. While attached to a military hospital in England Captain A. G. Owen, formerly of Camperdown and Terang, had a practical illustration of the courage of the men and women of England. "A few weeks ago,'' ho states, "f had admitted to my wards a North Country soldier, slightly wounded in the thigh. His mother came down from Yorkshire to see him, and camp to ask me about her son. She was a wrinkled, elderly working woman, uneducated and illiterate, but her heart was of gold and her courage wonderful. "This was her story: 'Before the war, sir, I had six fine boys. They all 'listed in August, and now this is the only one left of the six.' "Such was her simple story of the supreme sacrifice she had made for her country. An effort was made to persuade her to apply for an exemption for the last boy, or, at least, get him plaeed on homo service, but she would hare nono of it. She said to mo, 'Bill and mo 'ave talked it orer, and we vant no exemptions. When 4b wound is bettor Bill is going back to his regiment to face the same death as 'is brothers did.' " .