EDINBURGH'S V.C.
SELLING NEWSPAPERS IN THE STREETS. Seorgo Wilson, Y.C., discharged from ,ihe Army through wounds and rheumatism, is selling evening papers at a street corner in Edinburgh (says the London "Observer"). His pitch is tot the corner of the Lawnmarket. Wilson, who was in the Regular Army iwhen war broke out, fought at Mons and in the battle of tho Marne. In Jtho early days of tho war ho stolo from his trench, against his officer's brders, to attack a machine-gun crew (who were pouring in a galling fire. {Entering tho wood, he fought from tree to tree, killing eight Germans and bringing the machine-gun to tho British linos. Subsequently he was wounded and invalided home, hut returned to .the front, and finally was discharged fcecause of chronic rheumatism. _ With '6d. per day allowance for the Victoria Cross, Wilson has a pension of 16s. per week.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2924, 9 November 1916, Page 6
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147EDINBURGH'S V.C. Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2924, 9 November 1916, Page 6
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