PENNIES FEW

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11826, 6 January 1933, Page 7

PENNIES FEW

FOR ORGAN-GRINDER AGO

LONDON, Nov. 11

Former Sergeant-Major James Clarke. Toil: Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, who won the Victoria Cross and saw four years' service during the Croat War, is playing a barrel organ in the street's of No-Champion for a living. .

In his pocket is the bronze medal which the King pinned on his breast at Buckingham Palace soon after the .Armistice. He non it at Happergarbe in November, IMS, for capturing foil) - machine-guns and bayoneting the. crews single-handed. Next day he reorganised his lino and held up the enemy and later rushed a Lows gun team into the unpaint aide inferno of an intense barrage, silenced the enemy’s fire, and enabled his company to advance. iFor eight years after the war he was employed as a stoker, after ithich he was incapacitated for five years by illness. Then he secured temporary work, and. when he lost his job, hi.s wife worked in a cotton mill to keep him and their two children. As soon as he got well, he determined that she should work for the family no longer, and, in default of anything hotter to do, ho took to organgrinding. : He says that people are kind, but, that pennies are few.