I'm Here, Dad

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 December 1915, Page 3

I'm Here, Dad

"1 liiado ail my boys .joiu tho sthu.v n'ueu war bruise saiu a i.. JjJUi.O6U will), Willi Jlib bOll, . »UMi rutin utxii iroiii tlw tivhciiiw."

"We've becu iu the trenches together," said tke fattier, indicate & the son, "and altnougii been m the tiiiok of, some oi tlie big attav«i tjawe s-uob a bit ot ueirnau lead iu our bodies. . . ' . ''.

'■'Four of my boys are still lighting but jack and I have got a few d#ys leave. Theie's nothing like having a family party In the trencnes. During the fighting round Loos Jack was always near me. 'I'm nere, dad,' he used to say when the sliehs were fan ing close to üb. That's the way we fought, and we made up our minus to istandi or fall together. -

"We weren't the only father and son at the front. it gave the ,701 tg <-nes coinage to see their 'old -neu, as they call us, up and ready when the word came to attack."