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DRAMATIC HOME-COMING. A DEAF AND DUMB ' soldier. LONDON, Aug. 12. Relatives for eight years mourned as dead Thomas Webb, who joined tho Gloucester Regiment in the Great War, and was wounded at Loos. He wa3 transferred to the Durham Regiment as a scout and sniper, and was twice wounded at Arras, blown up on the Soranie, taken prisoner, and reported killed in 1918. Webb's father, Mr. John Webb, of ■Pembroke Dock, heard a knock at his door ori Monday night, and found a deaf and dumb man who had lost his memory. It" was his missing son. Questioned by means of a pencil and paper regarding the years between, the long-missing son hazily recalled that he returned to London from Switzerland, where he had learned the deaf and dumb language and cooking _ and needlework as an inmate of an institution. Ha landed at Dover »: a Failing boat, and tramped to the Pembroke Workhouse, where he tremulously wrote down his father's name. After that he groped his way home. ■ _
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19416, 26 August 1926, Page 10
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