In the course of the morning service at All Saints' Church, Palmerston North, on Sunday, the vicar pointed out a most interesting relic of the battlefield, which has been hung, by kind permission of Mrs Martin, over the bronze memorial of Sur-geon-major Martin in All Saints' Church. It i 3 a flag, riddled with German shrapnel, which was flying over the hospital _at Bethune, where Major Martin was working during the terrible fighting that took place at La Bassee and Ypres in the early days of the war.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3382, 8 January 1919, Page 7
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88Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 Otago Witness, Issue 3382, 8 January 1919, Page 7
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