ANONYMOUS V.C.
YOUNG MAN’S TRANSFORMATION FROM INVAI.ID TO HERO. (Received Marell 25 at 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 24. A modern Dick Whittington w.-ih <!<•• scribed |>v Sir Frank Benson at a City Liverv JLllub luncheon, lie said that the viiung fellow in question had, until he reached the ago of thirty, found evervl.ng unpleasant. Life gave him a hejunelie. At the outbreak ot the w .„. file was afraid to join up, tor f-.‘a ®hat the guns would give him a heaatehe Ultimately he found himscUffat Zcebrugge in charge of a mine sviSener. His job was to set a smoke : nnd carry off the survivors from the Ship that blocked the month of the canal. He carried a small black eat on his shoulder, did the job, and t the V.C. When the King asked what was his profession before the war, 11C replied that he was ashamed to say that lie was a. professed invalid, did not divulge his identity because of his relative ■
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Grey River Argus, 26 March 1928, Page 5
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