GENEEOTJS ENEMY
WARTIME INCIDENT
LONDON, April 9. The "News-Chronicle," after investigating a letter from an. Austrian exsoldier, reveals a. war episode, the hero of which is-believed to be a young Australian named Somervillo, who was in the Fourth Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. The letter was .written by Ernst Machelc, ,of the 117 th Austrian Infantry. He says that1 a British regiment captured his unit at Caldonazzo, on the Italian front, on November 7, 1918. A British officer, the letter adds, remained at the bedside of an Austrian lieutenant, never sparing himself for 40 hours, until the patient died. . Somerville is thought to have been the officer concerned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 92, 20 April 1933, Page 14
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108GENEEOTJS ENEMY Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 92, 20 April 1933, Page 14
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