Men Who Ended Two Wars.
The story has lately been told of the award of the Oross of the Legion of Honour to Corporal Sellier, tvho on the eve ef the Armistice, sounded into the night the Cease Fire." Bv 3 curious coincidence a veteran of 1870, Monsieur de Beaucourt, received the Legion of Honour the same day as Sellier Mow, it was M. de Beaucourt who fired the last cannon-shot of the.Franco-Prussian War. and chance has so willed it that Sellier.is one of his workmen It is surely a curious chance that has brought together these two men so strangely associated with the last moments of two great Wa rs. Interested foreigners have offered Sellier huge sums for his historic bugle, but, though he is not rich, he has refused to part with It at any p r ; ce , for he is reserving it for a .French museum.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17864, 4 June 1926, Page 13
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