A BRAVE SOLDIER
CAPTAIN SMART'S EXPLOIT (Rec. August. 15, 4 p.m.) London, August 14. Lieutenant Barter describes Captain Smart's exploit. Ho says ho (Captain . Smart) was almost ten yards from tho German trench when he was wounded in the right shoulder. "I shouted,' Hardy, go back!'" He answered, "All right; I'm left-handed," and then rushed off and commenced >to slam bomb 3 at tlio enemy. He went on like that for twenty or thirty yards, when he was shot through the head, which was half blown off. [The late Captain Smart was in England on furlough when war broke out, and fearing that if he returned to India ho would bo unable to get to tho front, changed his name to Hardy, and enlisted a,s a private in one of tho regular regiments.]
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2541, 16 August 1915, Page 5
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133A BRAVE SOLDIER Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2541, 16 August 1915, Page 5
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