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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 48, 26 October 1915, Page 7

Many touching .scenes are witnessed after an action, when the wounded aire being brought in, some of them too badly smashed to have *<»y chance' of life. One man with bis face frightfully disfigured was lying in the sun and dust uncomplainingly, when a chaplain happened to pass. The soldier made an effort to speak, but failed. The chaplain, believing he had anticipated the poor fellow's wishes, put his water-bottlo to his lips, but the bandages would not permit of njore that a few drops soaking through. But it wa s apparent that thirst was not the .soldier's worry. There wag something else on his mind. Remembering many cases in which he had been enabled to convey last messages to dear ones at home, the chaplain knelt down and gaye the men a sheet of paper and a pencil. This is what he scrawled: "The beggars won't face the bayonet!"