Piute Chieftain | 1916-05-25 | Page 3 | Seventeen Sons in the Army

seventeen sons in the army surely there would never have been any need to introduce compulsory military service if every british mother had followed the example or of mrs davies of church stretton england this good lady the widow of a soldier 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 Ky verdale road stamford hill gave her three triplet sons and a fourth son to the army then there ther e Is mrs potter a portsmouth england widow aged eighty three who has been awarded a prize locally for being the head of the family with the most members in the fighting service sixteen of her grandsons are in the army or the navy and the husbands of tour four of her granddaughters are on active service making 20 of her descendants altogether fighting tor for king and country in addition two other grandsons now dead were in the navy