STOIC SENTRY'S ORDEAL.
A young Senegalese soldier in a garrison near Rochefort, France, has lost both his feet as tho result of standing to attention for threo hours on a bitterly cold February night. According to tho Petit Parisien, it was his first time on guard, and ho appears to have misunderstood tho sergeant s directions, so that instead of marching up and down, ho remained stiffly at attention in one place. Although tho man suffered greatly and could not get his boots off afterwards, lie said nothing for seventeen days, by which time, finding he could no longer walk, he went to a doctor. Gangrene had begun in his frost-bitten feet, which had to be amputated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20868, 9 May 1931, Page 2 (Supplement)
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117STOIC SENTRY'S ORDEAL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20868, 9 May 1931, Page 2 (Supplement)
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