A BRITISH HERO.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 18, 13 January 1915, Page 7

A BRITISH HERO.

CHECKS 501)0 PRUSSIAN GUARDS. AXj) RKCJCIVKS VICTORIA CROSS. A special cable dispatch to the Vancouver Province tells of a stirring exploit as follous: "It is not often one has the pleasure of dining with a V.C. mail wliu is unaware of the distinction conferred upon Itim until, during the sweets, he opens a letter in this forsaken part uf the war area and suddenly finds he has been given the highest honor ever granted a British soldier. Lieutenant Dimmer -was my neighbor, and lie gained his great reward —even the censor will allow this to pass -in Flanders. J low': "l.et uii' tell Canada, in his own words, for perhaps Canada will have 011 cor more to her credit when this great strug- I gle is ended. It. was 011 the 12th, and the I'nissian Guards had been picked to find j the road to Calais. They found Dimmer L'ive thousand of them advanced, covered liv a (rrrifie rain of German shrapnel which destroyed live out of six of our machine guns. Three men fell at the sixth, but the fourth was a host in himself. Shrapnel has spluttered in his face, and he was bleeding so hard that he broached a flask of brandy he carried in his pocket. Two thousand rounds he wound oil', and the enemy hesitated — the Prussian Guards wavered. Then something jammed, anil he was shot again in the right shoulder. Another draught—-lie calls it Dutch courage—and his left hand had cleared the gun, and the leaden hai! was resumed. The Guards wilted, and then, when reinforcements had gained that advanced trench, Dimmer ceased to fire and fainted. He fainted again while, in the excitement of receiving th" news of the Victorian Cross, he told the story. It is of such stuff that heroes are made."