BRAVE PARENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2339, 22 December 1914, Page 6

BRAVE PARENTS

The parents of many of the British soldiers and sailors who have fallen in tho war are exhibiting a splendid fortitude. ' They put aside their private grief for the loss of their dear ones, and Tegard the saorifices they have been called upon to make as sacrifices for the good of their country. The following is an extract from a published letter written by Dr. Dickson on behalf of his wife and himself concerning their son, Midshipman Dickson, a youth of 17 years, who perished in the disaster to the cruiser Hogue, which was torpedoed by a German submarine in the North Sea: —"The loss of our brave boy has roused in us no feelings of a desire for revenge for him personally, but we* and our other sens are prepared to give still more, and by' thought, word and deed to do all in our power to help to wipo this curscd German militarism, with its ruthless atrocities, off tho face of the earth, onco for all. If perchance any parents who read this are holding back their sons, we appeal to them over our son's watery grave, for their King and country's honour, and for the children yet unborn, not to hesitate to send their boys forward into the battle line."