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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 29, 4 February 1915, Page 2

The Times of December 11th gives a wonderful story of the recent fighting round Ypres. A young lieutenant had posted himself in a tower a few hundred yards from >the German trenches. He had telephoned his orders regularly for half an hour. Then he said, without any trace of excitement, to the operator on the other side: "I hear the Germans coming up the stairs. I have my revolver. Don't believe anything more you hear." With these words he dropped ithe receiver, and he has not been heard of since. So passed to his long rest another "very gallant gentleman."