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STORY OF WAR HERO AWARDED VICTORIA CROSS CONFESSION TO THE KING (By Telegraph—Press Assn —Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, March 24. A modern Dick Whittington was described by Sir Frank Benson at the City Livery Club luncheon. He said that a young fellow until he reached the age of thirty found everything unpleasant and life gave him a headache. At the outbreak of the war he was afraid to join up for fear the guns would give him a headache. Ultimately he found himself at Zeebrugge in charge of a minesweeper. His job was to set up a smoke screen and carry off the survivors from a ship that blocked the mouth of the canal. He carried a small black cat on his shoulder, did the job and got the V.C. When the King asked what was his profession before the war he replied that he was ashamed to say he was a professed invalid. Sir Frank Benson did not divulge the man’s identity because of his relatives.—A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20446, 26 March 1928, Page 7
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