AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19418, 28 August 1926, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER.

A RECENT IDENTIFICATION. JUST A SCRAP OF PAPER. One more unknown soldier is known. In one of the costly and murderous attacks at Monchy-le-Preujt, which strewed the fields of France with dead in the summer of 1917, a Nottinghamshire lad of the Royal Scots regiment was shot down and was buried hastily in a solitary grave A.little time ago, in the task of removing these honoured but undistinguished remains from the graves where they had lam for nine long years to one of the cemeteries in Francp and Flanders, a scrap of paper fell from a mouldering uniform. It turned oat to be a bit of a postal order issued from Clarborough. Retford, in March, 1917. . The clue thus found was followed up. The postmistress knew to whom the order had been issued and sent; it happened to be a distant relative of her own. She sought the parents, and they, 100. remembered. The postal order had been sent to their son. Private Stevenson; and it must be a little alleviation of their old sorrow to realise that now they may visit j where he lies.