IMPERSONATED A SOLDIER

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 70, 22 November 1915, Page 6

IMPERSONATED A SOLDIER

WOMAN WHO DID NOT KNOW HER HUSBAND. ! United Press Association. ' LbiVddii, NoveiUber 19. Tlie soldier who impersonaled Sergeant Da tidy was sentenced to three years* imprisonment. ' (On August 18th, a Soldier was committed f<tr trial at .Manchester on a Charge of impersonating a Sergeant Dandy, who was lighting at the Dafdanelles. Evidence was given that prisoner entered Mrs Dandy’s shbj), sobbing: “Ob, I’m pleased to get borne to my wife and children.” Mrs Dandy accepted him as her husband, and lived with bin.i for a week until relatives expressed doubts regarding bis identity. He explained bis altered appearance by the horrors of the war and file seriousness of bis wounds, and excused bis lack of knowledge ol Dandy’s borne affairs by loss of memory. Soldiers who fought with Dandy declared that prisoner was «n impersonator. Mrs Hall, of Patrierolt, gave evidence that prisoner was her husband, who enlisted early in the year, and bad since been training in North Wales. Mrs Hall, on leaving the court, shouted: “It’s a caution to people who do not know their own husbands. “Voii’re as bad as be is. I should know my husband- in a hundred.”)