Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-22
FATE'S QUEER TURNS
Condolences Which War ".
Brought Forth. ~
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London.-While E. H yono
prominent resident of Fulham wa,
Charing Cross a few DAYS ago Vas Wa at
tlced number of men clad u ~ 10
getting out of the train. He Ioa- ..aA
they had just arrived from tho g.. Heu
FIJI, where they had given IN VI
situations to offer their SERVICES e eVuu
motherland in her hour of mood ~ .lS
James asked if any of them were f, rr
Suva. "on
sure, replied one of the staIw.,
young fellows. Il come from grna,
DO you know Harry James, !,
CURED the man from FuIham
i should think l do. He and ou
oVerseers on the same plantation
nave letter of introduction 70 hi
brother, d. H. James. of Fulham."
You can hand it over now" s.ia
Mr. James. Both were amazed to learr
that the first man the South Goa
Islander had spoken to on reacbIra
London was the very man in all Enc
land he wished to see.
This is but one of the extraordinarv
condolences which the war has
brought forth. A London hospital had
another remarkable illustration;
A young soldier was severely wound
ed In the fighting somewhere in
France" He lost consciousness and
when he regained it he was lying com,
fortably in bed in a ward of a largo
hospital. His first words were
Where am II" The nurse told him
that he was in London, that during tina
period of his Inconsistencies he had
been transported across the channel
and that his wounds had been tended
He asked the name of the hospital
the number of the ward, the dav Of
the week and the hour. The nurse
told him. Il say, nurse, you might
tell my dad | am here" The nurse
looked at him, thinking the poor lad
was in a delirium.
All right. nurse, my dads in the
next ward now. You know he is the
surgeon there and this is his visiting
day"
And so it was. The father was in
the next ward performing his work,
thinking all the time that his son was
in France. He did not even know that
the boy was wounded, far less that he
was being tended a few yards away.
Writing from the front to friends
at Llangollen, Private S. n Jones Of
the motor transport A. S. c. relates
peculiar coincidence concerning
himself. He was a driver on the
Wrexham motor bus route
and enlisted soon after the commence
ment of hostilities. In France, strange
to say, he was drafted to the identical
chassis of the motor he had been
driving on the Donbigshire route, it
having been purchased, with many
others, by the government.
The manager of the road car COM
pany has written to Private Jones stat
ing that, if it should be possible. they
will repurchase the car after the war
and place upon it plate recording
the circumstances related.
David Henderson, a Bowhill soldier
belonging to the Black Watch, has a
remarkable story to tell of how he
was able to pay back on the field Of
battle the services of man who saved
his life in this country in the piping
times of peace.
About year ago, when taking part
in regatta at Wemyss, his boat was
capsized and he was thrown into the
water. He had been swimming towards
the shore for some time when he was
picked up in an exhausted condition
by passing boat belonging to Dy'
sart.
Strange to say, after a fierce days
fighting in France, Private Henderson
saw a wounded soldier lying in front
of the trenches, and on going TO MS
assistance he was struck by some
thing familiar about the wounded man.
Henderson then asked his comrade Il
it was he who had saved Dave
Henderson from watery grave d.
Wemyss the previous summer II
was" came the reply. Then aLl
Davie Henderson" was the drama'io
rejoinder. Henderson then took MS
wounded comrade by the arm anu
under a heavy fire, led him to place
of safety.