A GRENADIER.

Western Star, 30 April 1915, Page 4

A GRENADIER.

Many strange incidents are related as tlio outcome of the fighting round La Bassee, and two coincidences are peculiarly interesting. After some of the brisk attacks and counter-attacks near Festubert, a knot of the Grenadiers found themselves in charge of a couple of German prisoners, whom they proceeded to examine with some sharpness until one of the two turned to a Guardsman with the leiuark; ‘Look here, Mick, give an old pal a chance. Don’t you remember me when I was in the Grenadiers?” “Mick” looked more closely at his prisoner, and discovered ihim to bo a man whom he remembered as having served three years in the regiment. Further explanations followed, and it transpired that the Gorman. who had been born in England, had loaned to Berlin, whore lie had married •a German wife and she had insisted upon Ins taking up arms for the Fatherland. In a second case a coincidence also fig. nves. A prisoner turned on one of his surprised captors with the threat: ‘ You (rout m 3 decently, or when 1 get back in Smethwick I'll make it hot for you.” He was recognised by the man thus addressed as a quondam Smethwick ironworker.