MAN WITH 20 SONS IN ARMY.
A war record of a painful character was recently disclosed in Paris. When war-‘broke ont, Vanhee, a. French cultivator at Reninghe, near Ypres, had 35 cllildren——22 sons and 14 daughters. Twenty of the sons fought on all fronts, and 13 were killed; three were discharged on account 0:‘ their serious wounds; one went through the operation of t'r-epanning; another returnt-P; blind and deaf; a third had both legs amputated; and :1 fourth, who, when war broke out, was a valet de chambrc of Pope Pius, was four times wounded. In 1917 the widow of one of the sons was killed by"a German shell at Dunkirk. The father of this family and one of his daughters met a tragic and. In October, 1914, they went to Lille to take part in the centenary celebrations of a relative. Met on their return by a German patrol, they were shot. _
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Taihape Daily Times, 8 September 1919, Page 3
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153MAN WITH 20 SONS IN ARMY. Taihape Daily Times, 8 September 1919, Page 3
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