DISFIGUREMENT AS DECORATION A train loaded with wounded soldiers drew up at a certain station. Afcng these was one whose face could not be discerned for bandages, “You poor, poor boy,” sympathised an English lady, who approached him timidly. “Madam,” replied th e soldier, with as much pride as springing to attention would convey, “don’t pity me. Pity mu chums in th'e train there, who got hit where it won’t show,” “Whip Ytammo,red. '1 thought you would not like to be disfigured.” “Disfigured!” the soldier replied, scornfully; “I am not disfigured —I am. decorated.” -IRST BATTLEFIELD MONUMENT. Th e first monument to be eroded on the battlefield in memory of those, who have fallen in the present war seems to.be that now being com plated at the extreme point reached by General von Kluck's army in the advance on Paris. It stands beside the; Mens Barcy Head, near the first graves to be met with in this district. The monument,which is the work of territorial engineers, consists of a truncated stone pyramid, hearing Die following inscription, ead in rod letters on a grey marhl 4 _, slab: “To the memory of the sol tiers of the. army of Paris who tell v,r their country cn the battk field of ‘'For this relief. rmHi 1 ; -• ’ Hamlet’s words express the feelings othe many thousands who have tested ■ “NAZOD.” All agree that '' >IAZ- ! OL” is “the best cough and cold rem--1 cdy in the Dominion.“ O' 1 a bottle TO-DAY.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 248, 10 July 1915, Page 3
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