DIED TO SAVE OTHERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15769, 18 November 1914, Page 9

DIED TO SAVE OTHERS.

UNKNOWN SOLDIER'S GRAVE. For the pake of his comrades an unknown private in tiro Royal Irish Regiment founrl a hero's grave. A wounded corporal of the West Yorkshire Regiment in hospital at Woolwich, said, in regard,to this net of noble self-sacrifice, "Early one morning we were sent ahead to a little village near Rheum, which we had reason to believe was clear of the enemy. Oil the outskirts wo questioned a French lad, but he seemed scared and ran away. Wo went on through the long, narrow street, and just as we were in sight of the end a man dashed out from a farmhouse on the right. Immediately rides began to crack in front, and the poor chap fell dead before he reached us. He was a private of the Royal Irish Regiment. We learned that he had been captured the previous day by a marauding party of German cavalry and had been held a prisoner at the farm where the Germans were in ambush for us. lift tumbled to their gam?, and though he knew that if he made the slightest sound they would kill him, he decided to make a dash to warn us of what was in store. He had more than a dozen bullets in him, and there was not the slightest hope for him. We carried him into a house until the fight was over and then we buried him next day with military honours. His identification disc and everything else was missing, bo that we could only put over his grave the Scriptural words: 'He Saved Others, Himself He Could Not Save.' There wasn't a dry eve among us when we laid him {■! rest j;i that little village."