HIS SUPREME SACRIFICE
LIFE GIVEN-TO SAVE HIS COMV RADES. The King lias awarded the -A IVifert Medal of the First Class in recognition of the gallantry of jLance-Cornoral Charles Henry Anderson, of the 1/Hth Battalion of the London Kegiment, who sacrificed his life to save his comrades in Prance in November last. Twelve men were in a hut when the safety-pin of a bomb was accidentally withdrawn. In the semidarkness Anderson shouted a warning to tho men,; rushed to tho door, and. en-' deAvflured t6-open it so as t<i throw the bomb into u field. Failing to do this, when he judged that jthe five seconds during which the' fuse was timed to burn had elapsed, . lie held the bomb us close to his body as possible with both hands in order to screen the other men in the liiit. Anderson and one other man were mortally wounded by the explosion, and five 'men were injured, but the remaining five escaped unhurt.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3183, 6 September 1917, Page 7
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162HIS SUPREME SACRIFICE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3183, 6 September 1917, Page 7
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