A HERO OF YPRES.
V.C. DIES IN POVERTY. Thomas Whitman. V.C. "*° ' x . ov c m. honour when a private in the stream Guards in the great war., died peritonitis in October. , -i Whitman won the Cross on Jug 1917. the opening day oi the B»ttle«W York His battalion were storming jomtionsonPilckemßidge,and^reheiauP bv enfilade fire from a machme-gur iW He attacked the gun cro«'.singto-hMd 60, and his bravery enabled lus comrades who leaves »*£f six children, was out of for soro time before his death, and had b> ra • money on his medal. He had aso ceived gifts from the town ot Oldham.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18891, 13 December 1924, Page 2 (Supplement)
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102A HERO OF YPRES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18891, 13 December 1924, Page 2 (Supplement)
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