Lost Memory

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1923, Page 4

Lost Memory

REMARKABLE CASE IN AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY. Dee. 20. A remarkable ease oi lapse oi memoiw has come to ligln in (jueeiishiml. Early in 1017. id Die age of ID, Fergus E Kemp presented Itimsc It at the recruiting office in ills home town in lexa> U.S.A., and was aeeepied for serviei abroad. In duly of the following yc.tl he look part in the stunt that iir.iki the German Army. In this action. Lieutenant Kemp was struck mi tie head by a piece of shrapnel. When in anm to lie was a prisoner in tho German lines. But. w-mst < i all. his mold ...as an ah-.nliitn 1 lank, lie could not remember hi.w he ,-ame to be there, nor ,-,,:! I,[ lie recoiled rtn thing about him--elf. \ foil in; hi lei: r he escaped in Dm i !,c scut ry, whom be ha i hi i on tbe head with ids heavy service after D ice (la- - of stealthy i ,nvi Hi eg reached ill" British line-. ME Dae that h" va- a soldier and •lit.! lift 1! .-aptuivd by ih" (ii mums. he coujd not tell lie officials anything about himself, ii" did eo! know bis own n- Don: lit;.- cv-,. Fv.itually fhi I ~..; - .,xri-d ill's t -Id i In: Dial lie was an An ■' ralian. and that his came was ;•! Wilburns, and after being patched up. l e uas scut • • home to Aus l ralia." ICeinj) liad mo io-i Ins knowledge <■( hors,.-, and s.-.-o imiu.l W"i k mi a cut lie !a I ion in North-West Qt n-!an.l. Here he mlived until a moiiEi or two wheu hia :ii(• i; :orv letureed to him in a flash,, i: :o.i|; tiie yminv. li'xan three necks to . :)!! " I bis 1 1 1 ■*e and reach Brisbane, -od la-iv-lc vabl"d his mu! her telling; her be was cotuien home i.ftcr an ahsem-e of -ix years.