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Show Seventeen Sons in the Army. Surely there would never have been any need to introduce compulsory military service if every British mother moth-er had followed the example of Mrs. Davies of Church Stretton, Salop, England. Eng-land. This good lady, the widow of a soldier, sol-dier, has given no fewer than 17 sons to the army, of whom 14 were actually on active service with the colors on September 15, 1914, six weeks only after the outbreak of the war. Another patriotic mother, Mrs. Jones of Kyverdale road, Stamford Hill, gave her three triplet sons and a fourth son to the army. k Then there is Mrs. Potter,' a Portsmouth Ports-mouth (England) widow, aged eighty-three, eighty-three, who has been awarded a prize locally for being the head of the family fam-ily with the most members in the fighting service. Sixteen of her grandsons are in the army or the navy, and the husbands of four of her granddaughters grand-daughters are on active service, making mak-ing 20 of her descendants altogether fighting for king and country. In addition, ad-dition, two other grandsons, now dead, were in the navy. |