SOME HEROIC DEEDS.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 61, 13 March 1916, Page 5

SOME HEROIC DEEDS.

SELF-SACRIFICE AND COOLNESS

(Received March 13, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON1; March 12. The long lists of Distinguished Conduct Medals are eloquent proof of the splendid - spirit -in .the ranks* r Tlvre are many instances, ; ~of self-sacrifice and 'coolness; in acutei danger. .

One of the. most notable deeds- is that of Lance-corporal B^s^s , ■> of the* Berlv^hires^, who: slib\V«t, Qp_nspifcTccms in. : g/nngv^it'^^f^ iin© arid!: "bringing' Wip: A-ri officer vtfitit] was' wounded' in ■ th» throat. • . Ba,te«: observed: that', the officer- was dying from suffocation. ". He found l a strflw, and forced it down the officer's throat, enabling him to breathe and suck, water from a bottle. Tine wounded man survived.