FAMOUS SHARPSHOOTERS

Grey River Argus, 13 April 1916, Page 6

FAMOUS SHARPSHOOTERS

HOW HE WAS WINGED

All Bavaria is in mourning over the death -of the champion sharpshooter of Crown Prince Rupprecht's army, Lance-Corporal Georg . Herrniieiter, who was shot in a storming operation in the West; As a large Bavarian contingent has been stationed continuously opposite the British lines in Flanders, it is possible that a bullet fired by a Tommy brought lierrnreiter to grief. The Munich newspapers describe the dead sharpshooter as "a cold-blooded champion shot, who in civilian life was a common workman from the district of Lower Bavaria, which is famed for its brutal customs." Herrnrtvter is said to %£ we killed "his eighty-sixth- i-irenchman." He was 'extremely popular with his superior officers because of a ) quite remarkable genius for observation.

During the Avar he earned notonly the Iron Cross, but numerous other decorations. Herrnreiter, I who "appears to have been something of a national hero in Bavaria, was filled with megalomaniac belief in his immunity from harm, notwithstanding that the sharpshooter's tree from which he was accustomed to. operate was "a fay ourite target of enemy infantry and artillery, and that his rifle was twice entirely and once partially shot to pieces in his hand. '