When a British soldier is wounded, cither he bemoans his fate inasmuch as he cannot any longer hope to get at the enemy or he cheers on those who go past him. And in hospital he finds no relief in the security from immediate danger. The last batch of Home newspapers tells many stories of the wounded, and the same note pervades them all: the hope of the slightly wounded" to get back to the line, and the cheerful manner in which the "seriously wounded accept their fate. Two incidents that are related may be taken at random from whole batches in the columns of the newspapers. A corporal and two privates of the Black Watch, all wounded, arrived in London last month.
Two were wounded in the hands and the Black weight we 0 back yy step, We stuck there Poppin' off the Germans aa fast as we the thick o't a" we were Harry Lander's latest. Tt was tus the dead an' deem every noo and then the German Hurst, but as we peppered awa' we sang 'Reamin' in the Gloaming.'
The Lass of Killicrankie.' sang about the Iassien we aang as the At times the odds at 300 pelled to appeal earnestly to Amer-at Harwich, where it was found necesica to relinquish her neutrality. to amputate the left limb just below The fact is remarkable enough to knee. The man was not told of the operation about to be performed, and on deserve attention, was "broken" to hin by the cheplel from the anwathetic the news
The youngster pulled a" long face
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