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Show ENGLISH SAILOR IN MANY TIGHT PLACES Physicians Send Him to Salt Lake to Convalesce; Is in Need of Work. Escaping in a rowboat from a torpedoed torpe-doed vessel in the siee or' the Dardanelles, Dardan-elles, .truck in two different places on thc head by shrapnel on the western ' front and torpedoed for the second time as he was on his way to Canada, Pri- i vate Laurence Aber. English born, naturalized nat-uralized American citizen, arrived in Salt Lake yesterday at the recommendation recommen-dation of army physicians and is await ing .'.isr-haice on account of pbvsical disability. Mr. Aber enlisted p.t Los Angeles in H'M- thrnuch the British consulate. Hefore humilities broko out in Kuropc I he was a sailor. 11c was assincd to tho Kovai X.iva) auxiliary transjuirt service and fought ;it the .1 'ardanolii's mid (ial-linoli. (ial-linoli. He was a metnbor of the" crew of the 1 ' Roynl l.dward." of wliich (i;3 wen1 lo t when the i ii was sunt; in April, 1915. He succeeded in rrapinc in a boat and landed on the island of i Veto in the Aeeau sea after seven days. Mr. Aber was next U-sifrned to the we-tern front, where he was woun'ied three times, t w ice on the h en d a n 1 once in the stomach. The liquid tire with which he came in contact at the battle of Yimy ride weakened his lungs to such an extent that hi dis-charii dis-charii was made necessary. 1 n accordance with the rule that a man invalided by the war may choose any pbice in -the British empire at which to convalesce, Mr. Aber ehose Calgary. Canada, al the suggestion of his physicians. After recovering somewhat some-what there he was advised to come to Salt Lake. .lie is still receiving his regular pay pr.d will continue to do so until he is offici.'jllv discharged, when, he will be pensioned. . Mr. Aber arrived here destitute of : clothes with the exeej.tion of a suit of! corduroy. He is without employment and expressed his desire to do light work of some kind. |