GREAT WAR SERVICE.

Western Star, 10 April 1934, Page 4

GREAT WAR SERVICE.

THREE GENERATIONS. MAJOR AND GRANDSON. The remarkable war service of three generations of a family was described at a meeting of the Society of Genealogists in London recently. Lieutenant-colonel J. If, Leslie, formerly hon. editor of the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, stated that in the audience was Bri"--adier-general IL T. 11. Law, who possessed the medals of his grandfather and his father in addition to his own. the medals represented among others the battles and campaigns of Corunna. Waterloo, Crimea, India, Zululandi South Africa, and the Great War. Brigadier-general Law, , who is 78 years of age, in response to requests Horn the audience, told something of his family history. “Some of the happiest ecollections of my boyhood days are those of sitting on my grandfather’s knee and listening to his stories of the Peninsula War,” he said.

“In those'-days the fighting only took P ace m the summer time. My grandfather told me that when they retired to .their winter quarters the troops used to draw a line of sentries along the The French were on the other sulo of the river. The English, haviim more provisions and tobacco, used to throw snacks and plugs of tobacco across to them, and, m exchange, the French threw over bottles of wine. ‘That is rather different from what lapjiened in the .last war, although the fust Christmas some of the German regiments fraternised with our men on the outposts. This was stopped at once however because it- was considered to be. not altogether war.” The speaker said that his grandfather was badly wounded in ll, e Battle ofWaterloo. lie was. a brigade major \ and a round shot took a niece out of* the calf of his leg. ‘/What was thiTlling to me,” Brigadier-general Law, “was, when ' I went out in the Great War, to on through some of the towns and villages ntK™ p ** voars before.” tl,e Ui ™>' 100 F “' i '' 3 ll » "‘l'Ur, V„, imw, ye did lace the other way and stood our ground.—(Applause.)

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