FIGHTING AT YPRES.
DEEDS OF HEROISM. FRENCH DOCTOR'S DEVOTION. Received this day, 1.15 a.m. London, Friday The Press Bureau states an eye-wit-ness narrates that eastward of Ypres a third attempt to Btorm some of the German trenches succe3de3. A subaltern commanding the attack was killed and the attack was continued under the Sergeant-Major, who received a distinguished conduct medal, but succumbed to his wounds. Spies and snipers often wearing khaki cap 3 similar to the British some times get behind our lines anrf cut the telephone wires. The eye witness concludes by describing the heroism of a French doctor who attend ed fifty-four German Wounded in the Ypres civil hospital for several days after the building was stuck by German sheils, including an incendiary shell. He as finally killed at his post.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 723, 21 November 1914, Page 5
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132FIGHTING AT YPRES. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 723, 21 November 1914, Page 5
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