WHY HE LAUGHED.
SOLDIER'S PLEASANT SURPRISE FOR RELATIVES. A soldier of the Cheshire Regiment, Sergeant Samuel Powell, of Sound, near Nantwich, has given his relatives and friends a pleasant surprise. He ■was reported killed some time ago, -and afterwards official intimation of his death was'conveyed to his parents from the military headquarters at "Shrewsbury, his name, rank, and identification number being given. Sergeant -Powell had a good laugh when shown a letter by his old schoolmaster conveying the sad regrets of the War Office. It appears the sergeant was seriously wounded. He wr 3 in a bayonet charge following his c clonel when he was shot through the shoulder within ten yards from a C irman trench. His colonel, seeing hin fall, went back to him and gave hi.n two morphia pills to ease his pain, and afterwards, when Sergeant Powell crawled into the captured trench, his pain was relieved again by his . colonel's kindly ministrations. \
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 6 January 1917, Page 6
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