"A REAL HERO"
: <y— DAREDEVIL CAREER. TRAGICALLY •- ENDED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyriabt Sydney, October 7. Lance-Corporal Foster told the story of Sapper Carlyon. "One of our officers was sniped by a Turk,. and Carlyon went out ana brought him in on his back. He was recommended for the Victora Cross, but two days later was killed in his own dug-out by being struck by a fragment of shell. . • • "Ho was'a real hero. -Everyone in my section looked'up to liim, even more ■ than to. the officers. He would climb ■ the parapets and Land over the wounded, or do anything else. He was a rare daredevil.
"It just shows you the luck of the game. Carlyon and fifty others were all in dug-outs in as safe a position as possible in the arena of danger; yet when he took every chance in the world amongst the bullets and shell-fire and shrapnel he never received, a scratch."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2588, 9 October 1915, Page 6
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153"A REAL HERO" Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2588, 9 October 1915, Page 6
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