A HERO'S DEATH

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2632, 30 November 1915, Page 7

A HERO'S DEATH

The calm heroism with which. Englishmen facs death at the front is described by Corpl. W. Buokland, of the Indian Ex.' peditionary Force, in a letter to a friend. He tells how his comrade, by falling over a German trip wire near one of the ' enemy's listening posts in Flanders, brought a fusillade upon both of them, the comrade being mortally wounded. "I'm handing in my checks, old man, 1 ' said the wounded man, as they regained the British lines, "and all the doctors in the world can't saro me." 1 "After I had made him ascomforfcabl® as I oould, on an OFercoat, and lit a cigarette for him;" says Corpl. Buckland's Jetter, "he started to talk over the time# we had had together in different parts of the world. He did not last long, though, "Just as the grey dawn was breaking he asked me to lay his rifle by him, ,and, after 1 had done so, he pulled me down by hie side, and I jnst managed to hear' him say, 'Bill,- I'm on the road now; I can hear someone sounding the great challenge, "Bait, who comes there?"' With a tremendous effort, he staggered up, and, : in a terrible foice, shouted, with_ almost super-human strength, 'An .Englishman,, who did his duty. 3 Shall I orer forget that scene? "That is how an English soldier meets his death."