WAR ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13743, 5 April 1915, Page 3

WAR ITEMS.

"DADDY'S BEEN WOUNDED."

A Dundee child's dream of her soldier father's death at the front has had a painful sequel. "Oh! Daddy's been wounded by the Germans," cried the four-year-old daughter of Private Robert Henderson, of the 2nd Royal Scots, through her sleep one morning. She woke "up under the stress of her dream, and, though her mother tried to calm her, the child piteously repeated the sentence. Within a few days of the incident, the mother, who resides at 33, Whorterbank, Lochee, received a letter from a French chaplain stating that Private Henderson had died of wounds on the night previous to his little girl's strange dream. The letter also states that the dead soldier was buried by the French minister at Locre, in Flanders, about three miles from Bailleul, and not many miles from Ypres, and that a wooden cross, with Private Henderson's name on it, marks the grave. Private Henderson was one of six brothers who have all served or are serving with the colours.