A HEROIC HIGHLANDER
HOLDS A BRIDGE SINGLEHANDED DIES AT HIS POST (Rec. September 27, • 5.20 p.m.) Paris, September 26. During the fighting at Soissons on Saturday the Germans surprised 150 Highlanders who, with a Mixim gun, were guarding a bridge. The Germans in overpowering numbers crept nearer and killed all the Maxim's crow, when one of the Highlanders rushed out under p. hail of bullets and i carried the Maxim on his back across the bridge. He sat alone • pouring a fire' on the enemy, who broke, and fled to cover, leaving scores of dead. The Highlander was killed and thirty bullets were found in his body when piclied up. Reinforcements caused the enemy to abandon the attack.'/:'
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2266, 28 September 1914, Page 5
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118A HEROIC HIGHLANDER Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2266, 28 September 1914, Page 5
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