A BRITISH HERO.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 8, 11 January 1915, Page 3

A BRITISH HERO.

*CHECK& SOhO PRUSSIAN GUARDS. and receives vfc-foRtA cross. A special cable dispatch to the Vancouver “Province” tells of a stirring exploit as follows : —“Jb is not often one has the pleasure of dining with a V.C. man who is unaware of the distinction conferred upon* him until, during the sweets, he opens a letter in this forsaken part of the war area and sudden finds he has been given the highest honor ever granted a British soldier. Lieutenant Dimmer was my neighbor, and ho gained his great reward—even the censor will allow this to pass—in Flandhrs. How? “Let me tell Canada, in life own words, for perhaps Canada will have one or more to her credit Svheri this great struggle' is ended. It was on the 12th, a lid the Prussian Guards had been picked to find the road to Calais. They found Dimmer. Five thousand of tlfem advanced, covered by a terrific rain of German shrapnel which destroyed five out of six of oun machine guns. Three men fell at’the sixth, but the fourth was a host iu himself. Shrapnel had spluttered jn his face, and he was bleeding so hard that he broached a flask of brandy he carried in his pocket. Two thousand rounds he wound off, and the enemy hesitated—the Prussian* Guards wavered. Then something jammed, and be was shot again in the right shoulder. Another draught—he calls it Dutch courage—and his left hand had cleared the gun, and the leaden hail was resumed. The Guards wilted, and then, when reinforcements had gained that advanced trench, Dimmer ceased to fire and fainted. He fainted again while, in the excitement of receiving the news of the Victoria Cross, he told the story. It is of such stuff that heroes are made.”