ADVENTURES OF A FLAG

Evening Star, Issue 16992, 14 March 1919, Page 3

ADVENTURES OF A FLAG

The following extract is from a letter, dated November 18, 1318, written by the adjutant of the Ist Battalion, Cheshire Regd-, ment:— “ On Sunday afternoon I had the honor of going over with, the commanding officer to a place near lions to receive back the battalion flag, which had been tost at Mods in 1614. It has quite a history attached to it. The drummer who canned it in the retreat was severely wounded, and afterwards died. Ho handed it over ,-,o another drummer, who was also wounded, but in spite of this he dashed into a loft and bid in tinder some corn. On being taken to the Belgian Convent to have his wounds dressed, he asked the sister hero to get somebody to recover the flag and put it in a safer place. At the risk of their lives the cure and the schoolmaster went and found the flag, and 1 hid it in their trousers. The Huns had heard about, the flag, and Benched all the houses for five days. The cure kept it first in his house —then behind: the choir stalls in tho church—then handed it over to the niaire, who had kept it ever since. We saw thorn all —the cure, the sister of th» hospital and tlie schoolmaster.”