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Show WIPES AWAY BLOT , IN DEATH AT POST Private of British Army Recounts Valiant End of gerapegrace Comrade t Special Cab e to The Tribune ( "LONDON Dec 12 Private B G Tip per of the Co dstrean guards te s in a 1 letter home the following story of an in -i eterate scapegoat who d ed here There was a man in the trenches Bwith us who had not got a clean I sheet he always seemed to be get t ng in o -troub e for one th ng or He got hit in the left arm He crawled back out of the trenches to i the nearest field ambulance and had bis wound dressed i -We advised h m to go to the rear but he refused and w th d ffioulty 1 made his v. ay back to the firing 1 ne 6 There despite his wounded arm he 1 steadily went on firing at the en t nfcome time passed and he was shot S I In the right arm. Again he made the s d ffloult and painful journey to the f eld hospital and again with both arras injured he stubbornly Insisted on crawling back to the trench This time it took h m longer but at last he got back and ngth d f ficulty to handling his rifle with h s Injured limbs he grimly went on L shooting r By and by he col apsed sbot clean St through the body Several com ades P ran to h m and raised him. They E told him he must get back but he I said No let me be The beggars f have done me this time lack He nodded toward two wounded men i a 1 ttle way off in the trench and said -Get those chaps they 11 be good for something again. But for j me I m done ' His chums were laying him down when he muttered Ho st me up be fore you go 1 11 give them another II round so he p me Prop me up qu ck f and look to those two chaps They propped him up beside his rifle which res ed In the loopho e The poor fe ov. w th fumb ng hands po nted his rifle and et drive two more rounds Then he s pped down , I dead |