BLIND V.C. IN TRENCHES.
t. CHEERING HIS COMRADES. - S A blind officer V.C. has just visited the trenches to cheer his old comrades of the Gordon Highlanders.
' Captain Towse won his V.C. in South Africa. On April 30, 1900, at Mount lhaba, in the Orange River Colony, he charged forward with twelve of his men at an overwhelming mass of the foo and saved the summit of the mountain from capture. A bullet which struck him sideways blinded him in both eyes. Until the outbreak of the present war he lived in partial retirement at Goring-on-Thames, but he soon felt impelled to try to take a part in the great struggle, and for weeks lie wrote letters for wounded soldiers at a hospital near the firing line. Recently he expressed a desire to be taken to his old regiment in the trenches and his wish was gratified. No details of the visit are, of course, obtainable, but the mutual pleasure of the blind hero and his old comrades is easy to imagine. J
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15948, 19 June 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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