THE BELGIAN SOLDIER
A BRAVE AND GALLANT COMRADE (Rec. October 20, 5.50 p.m.) London,. October 19. 'A" correspondent , wlio' has".'watched the Belgian soldier'for'two'mcnths at every kind of duty, fighting and .w.ojnjded,..says that as a result'he has'developed a great admiration for his careless courage, and has a greater, likening for the man who, with , all his manihood, has so much of t!he child in 'him. Ho is such a chatterbox, so full of laughter, and his cheerfulness and badinage are never so lively as when tho sternest work is doing. Unshaven and hungry, tired and unable "to walk or lift his rifle ho still beats' himself with.a gallant gaiety altogether,fascinating. —("Times" and Sydney : ""Suh"Servioes.)
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2286, 21 October 1914, Page 5
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113THE BELGIAN SOLDIER Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2286, 21 October 1914, Page 5
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