MYSTERIOUS LOSS OF MEMORY.
(Fkom Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, April 24. At Easter a number 01 ex-soldiers visited the battlefields of France and Belgium. A party was inspecting the Hangard Wood, on the Somme, when one of the men noticed the spot where he had been wounded.
He drifted away from his comrades (writes an Amiens correspondent), and was found that night wandering in the streets of Amiens. Passers-by noticed that ho was limping badly. Unable to obtain any information from him, although they addressed him in English, they took him to the police, where M, Martel, the police commissary, called in Mr Oswald, the British Vice-Consul, and together they questioned him. The man did not know his name, and was unable to say anything beyond the fact that the wound in his leg was hurting him badly. His pockets were searched, and in them were found papers in the name of James Sidney, born at Oxford on June 21, 1890, and living at St. Clement’s street, Oxford. He also had a railway ticket from London to Amiens, via Folkestone and Boulogne. The Vice-Consul forwarded a report to the Foreign Office,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21040, 31 May 1930, Page 20
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