THE DYING OFFICER
The following inspiring atpry_is told in. tho "Express" by a soldier-journal-ist :—Bullets wore throwing up the dust all round in little grey puffs. Shrapnel burst overhead in blinding flashes, flinging down doatk. But the Fusiliers hid to take the village because they had been ohosen to do so. Their gallant officer fell within twenty yards of tho enemy's trenches. His left arm was blown ""away, and a bullet was through his chest. lie stumbled a. few yards, mortally wounded though lie was, but i'ell at' last. Then ho raised himself aomehoW oil bis knees and pointed the little cane be carried in bis right hand to tho villago, high up on the crest of tin- hill. There wtfs no need for him to speak. Tho gesture, so full of meaning, and the glorious spirit shining from his dying eyes .told their owjj .talo. 'His' men "took the first trench quite easily. The barbed wire defences had completely disappeared. A few soreaming Boches were bayoneted, and tbeu.'our men. wero over and beyond.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2902, 14 October 1916, Page 13
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174THE DYING OFFICER Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2902, 14 October 1916, Page 13
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