THE LOST LEGION
A Bradford Territorial on service in Flaiaders sends home a good story, accompanied by a guarantee of veracity. A number of men who came out with; \ a new draft, went round to see tho ' sights and the havoo wrought amongst their new surroundings ■by months of war. Naturally they visited the soldiers' cemetery, and paid their tribute 'to the unknown comrades whose places * they had come to fill. In billets that '•■ night tho talk naturally turned to the heavy casualties' of the winter campaign, and the regiments which had suffered most. The older hands grew reminiscent, and the newcomers glistened with respect. But it fell to one of the latter to wind up the discussion of a melancholy topic. "From I saw in the cemetery," he innocently ventured, "1 should think the 10.P.g suffered worst. Those letters were on nearly half the graves I looked at!"
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Evening Star, Issue 15908, 14 September 1915, Page 4
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149THE LOST LEGION Evening Star, Issue 15908, 14 September 1915, Page 4
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