WIG LOST IN WAR

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 220, 4 June 1915, Page 3

WIG LOST IN WAR

... — "*:%■ —— —'— GERMANS MEAN THEFT FROM A CORPORAL. ‘ Cor pi. Frederick .Tagger of the Kings , Royal Rifles, an exchanged wounded pr;. r; is now recuperating in Queen Alexandra Hospital at MiJlbank. lie not only lust one leg, but was also scalped on the battlefield. The corporal told a strange talc of adventure to a London Daily Express j representative. “During the fighting on November j 2,” he said “I was-, entrenched with my | regiment a few miles north-east of j Yores. I was working one of flic ina- ! chine guns along with the others. Wc | wore having it all our own way, and we ’ were simply mowing down the Germans. “Suddenly we received the order to cease firing, and as we rested on the side of the trench a German officer came tew-ards us with a white flag in his hand. He was followed by about two hundred Germans with their rifles, baynets fixed, slung across their shoulders We all thought it was a general surrer: der, but when the brutes t reached the trench they rushed it, and I am one of the very few left to tell the story, “I was taken later on to a field hospital at Courtrai, where my leg was amputated . Meanwhile, however, I had been stripped of all my belongings including my wig-which they kept as a souvenir. 1 must explain that I lost my hair during the seige of Ladysmith, ! in the Boer war—the result of eating putrid horseflesh. ’’ Corporal .Tagger has now a brand net*, wig and, lie proudly boasts that he owes the new head covering to the kindness of the King. “One \day when I was lying in the hospital the King paid us a visit, and noticing my bald head, enquired how I had lost my hair. O hearing my story the King at once gave ordersthat I was to have a new wig,” Now dagger'is happy,