BRAVE LITTLE PRIEST KILLED.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 30 December 1915, Page 3

BRAVE LITTLE PRIEST KILLED.

STORY OF FATHER GWYNN IS DEVOTION TO DUTY. LONDON, \ Nov;. 12. Rev. .Tolln Gwymi, ; 'C. .1., chaplain + o the Irish Guards, whose death was announced on October 18, died of wounds which lie received while in a dug-out with the colonel. The following account of Ifls heroic devotion during the fighting round Hill 70 is given by an Irish Guardsman: —

'■'Father Gwynn was known among the boys as ' The Brave Little Priest. ‘ Early in the war he was seriously wounded, but refused to return : to England. During the terrible fighting recently Father Gwynn was again at his post. I saw him just before the died. Shrapnel and bullets were being show'ered upon ns in all directions.

"Hundreds of our lads dropped. Father Gwynn was undismayed. He seemed to be all over the place trying to give the Last Sacrament to the dying. Once I thought he was buried alive, for a shell' exploded within a ft’w yards of where was was,- and the next moment I saw nothing but r

great heap of earth

The plfight of

the wounded concealed beneath was harrowing. Out of the ground c.tme cries of 'Father, Father, Father’, from those who were in their death agonies. Then, as if by a miracle, Father Gwynn was seen to fight his way through the earth. He must have been severely injured, but he went on blessing the wounded and hearing their confessions. The last I saw of him. he was kneeling by the side of German soldier. It was a sf ' on "

make yon cry. The shells continued to explode about the wounded, but tlmv could not ston a little English priest from doing his duty even to dving Germans.”