LOST IN BATTLE
PRUSSIAN STANDARD MISSING SINCE 1914.
GERMANY SEEKS RETURN FROM FRANCE. (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel.'Copyright) : PARIS.• Jan. ]L. •Marshal vori Hindoiiburg has" addfessed a secret request to the French Government that the standard of the Second Battalion oi' the Third Regiment of the Prussian Guards, lost at Rlieims on August 26. 1914. shall be 1 rans.f erred from the French War Museum to Berlin.
The Prussian standard-bearer, who .was mortally ■ wounded, tore the Hag td shreds and wound it round his body. He. was buried like. this, but French soldiers levelling the warfieltfs discovered the trophy in 1920 and sent it. to Paris.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11832, 13 January 1933, Page 2
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