WAR HEROINE.
NUftSE WHO BORE SHOT MAN TO SAFETY.
AMSTERDAM. July 27. The correspondent of the Algemeen Handelsblad m a letter "from the English fyont," fells the following story of an. English nurse.:— -
I was now afar from the trenches and was walking along a sunken road, when rounding a curve I saw , a bent figure slowly moving forward. I hurried up. At first I stood speechless.- I saw a, girl of not more than.twenty -three years of age carrying on her shoulder a young English infantryman. The young man had been shot through: the shoulder, and after a preliminary^ dressing of the ivouud he had been told to go to the nearest field Hospital. Taking a wrong turning he had lost 'his way, had collapsed and fainted. In this state the young girl — sheiAvas an English nurse— found him. As it was at least half an hour's*, Avalk to the nearest field hospital, she decided to carry him there. The brave girl readily accepted my assistance. We made my .overcoat into a stretcher, and together carried the wounded man to thchbspital. ."■'■■
After receiving a satisfactory report from the doctor the young 1 girl continued her walk.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13786, 11 September 1915, Page 3
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