STORIES OF THE FIGHTING

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 108, 9 January 1915, Page 8

STORIES OF THE FIGHTING

BLACK SHEEP WHO DIED LIKE A \ HERO. ________ i HACKNEY M.P.'S LETTER. A'private of the 3rd Coldstream j Guards, who in peace time was often getting into trouble for one thing or, another, died a hero. Private R. G. Tipper, a Coldstrejimor, relates the , story in a letter to his brother. Ho says: "There was a man in the trenches' with ub who had not got a clean sheet; he always seemed to be getting into j trouble for one thing or another. He got hit in the left arm. He crawled back out of the trench to the nearest field hospital ambulance and had his wound dressed. We advised I him to go to the base but he refused j and with difficulty made his way back | to the firing line. There, despite his wounded arm, he steadily went on firing at the enemy. ! '.'Some time passed and he was shot j again; in the right arm.' Again he ; made the difficult and painful journey! to the field hospital, and then, with ' both arms injured, lie stubbornly insisted on crawling back to the trenches. ' This time it took him longer, but at last he got back, and- with difficulty handling his rifle with his mauled limbs, grimly went on shooting. [ 'By and bye lie collapsed, shot clean ' through tie body. -Several comrades ran to him and raised him. They told him he< must get back, but he said, 'No, . let me be. The blighters have done me j in this time.' "He nodded towards two. wounded men a little way oft in the trench and j said: 'Get those chaps o\fi: they'll be j good for -something again. But I'm i done.'. ! His-chums were laying him down, when he muttered: 'Hoist me up before you go. I'll give them another round, so help me!!- Prop me up quick ! and look to those two chaps.' "They propped him- up beside- Lis rifle, which rested in the loophole. The poor fellow with fumbling hands pointed the weapon towards the enemy and let drive two more rounds. Then ho slipped down —dead.'' | M..P. IN THE TRENCHES. • . Captain Raymond Greene, the l/nionistf .'mfniibe'r "for North Hackney, wlm is at ili.e .front with the 9th Lancers, ftas sent a Jong ■and- isteisestkig letter • to" Sir John Runtz, the president of tli-e l'oeal Conservative Association, describing.his experience's.- He-says.; "If my friends in North Hackney. could see me then they certainly 'I would Ti'ot: /recognise ■ their'"reprcsenta'- ■\ ti>e; ; i\ve »gefc covered with- mud, ; t . our ! cjlothes /Cdtfted with, clay, and we; look . rather like a gang of miners WHo'have been'working'all-day at'.digging iron ore. '''"... " . GOEEEN STRIKES MINES. ; COPENHAGEN, Jan. 7. . Constantinople states that the Goe- ; ben struck two Russian mines, near the ; Bosphoriis. Repairs will occupy I months., . ;• .'• .-. '