He continued: "You are the recipients of an honour which, it true, can only be won in war, jand there is no wise man today who, having learnt' what—war means, does not pray that it may never come again. But that fact only enhances the value of the cross. It is the symbol of the possession of those qualities which, though war. called them forth, are really foundations of such qualities asa" cool ad' and undaunted heart peerless disregard of self, and, it any man thinks that valour" is only called for in fighting on factual field of battle, he must have a very distorted view of life.
The Prince, in concluding, spoke fof those who lost their lives in acts of valour, who might otherwise have broken bread with them that night, and of many good men [whose nerves cracked under the terrible strain, but.who lived on, externally sound may be, but with mind and spirit crippled and] bewildered. "They too might. have been with' us," he said. "Let us remember) them alk"—British
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