HIDDEN IN WARDROBE
A REMARKABLE STORY IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY FRENCH WOMAN CONCEALS BRITISH SOLDIEK LONDON, Feb. 14. An amazing and previously unrclcased story has been told in long despatches from Bertry, an unmapped village north of Saint Quentin, where Trooper Patrick Fowler, of the 11th Hussars, was listed as missing. He remained hidden in a compartment of a wardrobe 5 feet by 30 inches by 18 inches from January 15, 1915, to October 10, 1918, while the village was occupied by Germans. The heroine of this desperate adventure, who was daily and hourly in danger of death for the part she played, is Madame Belmont Gobert, a widow. Her noble self-sacrifice might never have been recorded had Madame not recently fallen on evil times. Fowler’s horse was shot beneath him and he was cut off from his regiment. He hid in the woods with his face and hands bleeding until he was discovered by Madame Gobert’s son-in-law.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19768, 16 February 1927, Page 6
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157HIDDEN IN WARDROBE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19768, 16 February 1927, Page 6
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