WAR-TIME INCIDENT
CARED FOR DYING ENEMY AUSTRALIAN OFFICER’S ACT LONDON, April 2. The “News-Chronicle” after investigating a letter from an Australian exsoldier, reveals a war episode, the hero of which is believed to be a young Australian named Somerville, who was in the 4th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. The letter was written by Ernst Machek, of the 117th Austrian Infantry. He says that a British regiment captured his unit at Caldonazzo, on the Italian front, on November 7, 1918. A British officer, the letter adds, remained at the bedside of an Austrian lientcnant, never sparing himself for 40 hours, until the patient died. Somerville is thought to have been the officer concerned.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 98, 20 April 1933, Page 7
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