Show British Captain apt ai n Is Here ee I His E Entire tare Company Gon E 0 t Relates Relates' W War ar Experiences Twice Wounded Fighter CAPTAIN FRANK ED ED- EDV C to Tell SaIt Salt Lake of V- V WARDS who who vho Will give address at fair tonight B Battles aU I es Captain Captain Frank Edwards commander I of company C Twenty-fourth Twenty battalion I royal rojal fusiliers has been sent direct from rom the trenches to bring to America a better clearer understanding of the conditions now obtaining at the front His mission Is to make plain what It has meant for England and France to hold the line for four years and t 3 s sto to bring home to the American people the sacrifice that has been made by the men and women of the allied nations na na- y in the struggle for civilization and for individual I u liberty I The captain cap cap- tain I arrived i in Salt I Lake t this ea afternoon afternoon after after- t r noon Captain Edwards has seen much l I fighting in various fields lIe He served for two years ears in the Boer war where after being seriously wounded he was given a capt captains captain's ins in's commission by Lord hS Roberts for gallantry in the field Ip In spite of his captains captain's commission gamed d In in the Boer war Captain Edwards Ed Ed- wards at the outbreak of the present I war enlisted as a private together S 'S II with a a. large number of officers ex-officers and I university men in the sportsmens sportsmen's battalion of the ro royal roial al I fusiliers ers This battalion known as asI I the Twenty-fourth Twenty has seen distinguished distinguished distinguished distin distin- i I service and has become one i of the noted fighting units of the BritIsh British Brit Brit- Ish arm army While enlisting as a I. I I Continued on page 6 I I BRITISH CAPTAIN v Continued from p page ge 1 1 J Captain Edwards t rose rapidly i through the various ranks to his pr present present pres pres- sent s- s ent position that of comp company ny commander com corn mander In France Captain Edwards led his company through many actions in the Somme struggle and in in inthe the fight of wood his entire company company was I destroyed Out of men men who en entered entered en- en the he fight only six all most se seriously seriously se- se wounded were carried from tram th the field He has spent the greater part of the past f four ur years in the front line trenches and he ho has been twice Seriously se seriously seriously se- se wounded Captain Edwards Ed talks to his au au- au in a plain straightforward forceful manner Captain Edwards will speak at the format formal opening exercises of ot the Utah state fair tonight |