WAR STORY IN WILL
SON’S GALLANTRY WENT UNRECOGNISED
HEROISM ON LOST CRUISER LONDON, Sunday. The will of the late Dr. Edward Sonuenscliein, emeritus professor of Latin and Greek at Birmingham University, reveals a story of war gallantry 15 years after the event. The testator explained that he had left the larger share of his estate to his younger son, Edward Stallybrass, naval officer, in recoAition of his services to his country* throughout the whole of the Great War, and particularly at the sinking of the British cruiser Pathfinder, in September, 1914. , _ . On that occasion the son jumped into the sea and saved several lives. This service, the will states, was never publicly recognised, either by the Admiralty or otherwise. In addition to his actual rescues the voung officer kept up his men’s spirits until they were picked up. by reciting Kipling’s “If.” , Both Dr. Sonnenschein s sons were British-born. They changed their names in orded to serve in the British forces.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 830, 26 November 1929, Page 9
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161WAR STORY IN WILL Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 830, 26 November 1929, Page 9
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