HEROISM IN THE WAR

Evening Star, Issue 19290, 1 July 1926, Page 7

HEROISM IN THE WAR

I STBETSHER-BEAREB’S DEED A little whiln ago sorao men of the war met together in England for a social evening, and one of theta was railed upon to make a. speech. He said ho did not like recalling the fool sights and sounds and smells of tho trenches, yet ho knew ho would bo exported to talk about tho war. Well, there was one moment in it which was worth remembering. In the first battle of the Somme, said the narrator, he was badly wounded. Two stretcher-bearers came out to him, and were bringing him hark to the British lines, when suddenly the Germans began to shell No Man’s Land again. Of course, the safest thing to do when one cannot, take rover is to lie as fiat on tho ground as possible. Tint this time, when the stretcher was put down, one of tho bearers throw himself over tho . wounded man, covering him’ with' his own body lost he should bo hit again bv flying shrapnel. It was not a high-sounding deed like the storming of a trench; yet there is something fine about the unselfishness of this man who did more than his duty.