ELEVEN SOLDIER SONS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XX, Issue 5190, 19 July 1915, Page 2

ELEVEN SOLDIER SONS.

si'll ELY A WORLD'S RECORD

To give eleven sons to the Empire’s cause is surely a rt'Cortl sacrifice for any mother. Vet it has been cheerfully made by Mrs Loane, of Rose >lr<“et, Prospect, Adelaide. Phroo sons are already at the front,and the remainder are either in camp or serving with the naval and military forces in Australia.

Her only daughter, who resides in Western Australia, has qua I; fad for .the St. John Ambulance Association 1 lodge, and at present is matron to the boy scout troops of Builder (tty, Western Australia., where she spends most of her spare t rue training the boys who will be the men and soldiers of the future.

Just previous to the entrance of ♦he Adelaide reporter, who interviewed her, Mrs Leane had received a telegram notifying her that her

“baby” Ben had been wounded in the Dardanelles, but there was no wail oi anguish and no note of despair. ‘‘l know he’ll do h';is duty,” was all she said. “1 want my sons, but tnv country wants them more.'*

“T have given niv all.” she said, ■“and for my country’s fight T have now five sens and 1 six grandsons who are all my boys and much loved, yet l would rather that they should go out and fight than skulk at homo when the Motherland is in need of them. When they gradually went off to their eompanies f felt despondent, as though they would never more return. but better thoughts have como and 1 know they are in (tod's hands. I eouldx wish nothing better for the last, years of 114 life than this knowledge. ft was not oa.sy for any mother to send out her own flesh ami blood to probable suffering and death; hut it was my duty, and every right-thinking mother owes a duty to the Mnqtire, you know.”