A WOULD-BE SOLDIER
A pretty little girl of St. Pol, near Arras, Bertlie Oiibert, 19 years of age, has just been discovered in French soldiers's uniform in the region of tho firing lino. She had cut her hair short, and otherwise disguised herself, and sho cried bitterly when the military authorities sent her back to her parents. Sho said that her brother had been killed at Carency, and she was determined to avenge his death. Sho had dressed herself in one of his old uniforms, and had walked twenty miles, intending to take her place in tho firing line.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2539, 13 August 1915, Page 3
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99A WOULD-BE SOLDIER Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2539, 13 August 1915, Page 3
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