TO REPAY DEBT

Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1932, Page 3

TO REPAY DEBT

‘. 'OpICJBIfS SEARCH SINCE WAR. I® MEN WHO RESCUED- HIM.. 8 LONDON. JuV 19. Anny ox-officer, after searching ' to’Jflurteen years, has found ohe of j th„*men who rescued him •from.^deatl^ | v\'..iie he was lying seriously ; wounded in # deser:ed shßii-hule ; ' fie ex-officer is Mi* E. Jones, | i nov| : president of Southend Chamber. of .imercel He was ' hit by shrapnel 1 rjl ~_st. Leger in the ,late summer of 1 13, and staggered to it shell-hole, bo wr; .seen by men in the British line.- ~ mid four of them, belonging to C B ttory(- of the 72nd Artillery era lied through, raking RfirSt to • Jji’iftg 1 i him, ,to Jsafety. | They parted at the dressing station, i ]\la Jones has tried to trace his ros- | otters ever since. His only clue was 1 ti t they spoke like Tyne skiers, | when he wtofl at a conference af. NowI

jajstle-on-iTyrte' he! told his" story in 'public in the hopq of. locating vihe- men. . ' Mr .Tones, ...feeling : liis latest "effort ’’. A failed; ret”,r’led,south,■ but be learned the other, day, tlhat a miner, in a iiery village near Sunderland hat beep, concerned in the', rescue. , There •will bey a 'happy reunion shortly. Mr Edmund Elliott,' a siirty-®ix-year. old miner, of £filkswbrth. 00. Durham, t,s one of the heroes,' 'afflU^said, ""I’d ' ,M" nrous• representative'':' -'Four of us did bring ait'-dflicer c. n V ' jif Jones frWR n • shell-hole ,at the ri’ • land, about the' time; MspOnes men- ■ tionh. buf. T did not like to answer appealed first in case he was not the ■ -, t . . v - ’ '•* “We» left him in the dressing st?t‘n’;i«c|viievipr whether h* Hro.d ■,-> • died. It is good to hear after all tlr+.hgt we did: not carry him' home ! Jn- Tain, •, . ,■: -‘its, It;was' a stiff crawl hole, but; we were tluckyi and none of. us was hurt.’’, g. -■ . - The other rescuers were Mr Bert Mytpn, formerly of. Silkswortli, who is now working in the lead mines in'British Columbia >Mf ;.Wm i ;RBV . Wl'ightj