GREAT WAR VETERAN
SCRAPPED IN BRITAIN LONDON, Aug. 19. A battle-scarred British war veteran a.ml ex-German prisoner ot' war, with a travel record of more titan .1,220,000 miles, lias just passed away. 'l’liis “hero’ was Locomotive No. 2717, believed to have been the only British railway engine to have been captured by the Germans. It has just been withdrawn from service' and broken up. While- in use on tho British front at Oambrai in 1917, No. 2717 was captured by the enemy and for five mouths was used as a machine-gun post iu “No Mail's Lund.” Following the March retreat the Germans removed the engine, patched up the bullet and shrapnel holes, and used her for railway service until she was recaptured by the British in . 1918. On return to home duties after the war the engine was decorated with a plate recording its war services.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18206, 29 September 1933, Page 10
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