STORY OF GALLANTRY
REVELATION MADE IN WILL. HEROISM OF NAVAL OFFICER. | 8.5 p.m.) London, November 24. \e will of Edward Sonnenschein, , fitus Professor of Classics at Birminga • University, reveals a story of war i'-intry 15 years after the event. The ■stator explains that he left the larger ■ are of his estate to his younger son, Rt'vard Stallybrass, a naval officer, in -gnition of his services to his country ‘IT. ughout the whole of the war and par, •act lq.rly at the sinking' of H.M.S. Path- ■ ffno r in September, 1914, when he jumped •into the water and saved several lives. This service, the will states, was never publicly recognized by the Admiralty or otherwise. Besides the actual rescues the young officer kept up the men’s spirits till they were picked up from the sea by reciting Kipling’s ‘‘lf.” Both Sonnenschein’s sons were British born, and changed their names in order to serve in the British forces.
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Southland Times, Issue 20941, 26 November 1929, Page 7
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156STORY OF GALLANTRY Southland Times, Issue 20941, 26 November 1929, Page 7
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