CRIPPLE'S HEROIC DEATH.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1916, Page 2

CRIPPLE'S HEROIC DEATH.

AN EXAMPLE .TO SHIRKERS. Here is an object-lesson for the shirkers—the story of a London ex-crip-ple wini was helped by the, Ragged Sehooi Union to conquer his affliction, and who, when the war broke out tried and tried again to enlist, and succeeded at the seventh attempt. Now he has met his death while acting as a bombthrower in the trenches. Harry Dale, aged twenty-two, in his last letter to his mother three d-iyc before his death wrote: ''l have, been chosen for bomb-throwing. Please do not worry for jne. Try to think that whatever happens it is only bringing the end nearer. Take care of yourselves, and, ii I van, I will try and come back 'someone to be proud of.' According to one of his chums, they had just taken a German trenc'i, and were setting back to their own again, when, most of the men having jumped the parapet to safety, Harry was puked off by a sniper. Thus died a plucky lad who, when he was first visited by one of the Union's Cripple Mission visitors, had spent lime months on his back, and had been t 'eatcd in St. Thomas' Hospital for hip >ps. ease. Subsequently he spent six otoliths in a sanatorium for consumption. With but little education, tinlad started work, and was again and again brought down by asthma an] lung trouble. Rut he was only "baffled to light better." When the war broke out he determined to enlist, like other fellows, and il was only on his seventh application, on May 10 last, that- he was accepted Within eleven weeks he was at tho front, and 011 September -23 laid down his life.