Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-25
SCT. VOSPEI IN WAR PLAYS PART
 OF REAL HERO
Wounded Three Times and Gassed Thrice in Course of Three Years Service With Canadians

Many heroes are coming back and writing back from the fields of France. but this column doubts very much if any one has had finer word from traer hero than has Miss Maud Vospei of this district from her broth CT, Frank Vospei,-sergeant in the 72d Seaforth HIghlanders. Miss Vospei is stenogrspner for Ellinwood & Ross. Her brother enlisted with the Canadi- an contingent from Vancouver early in the war He has served for three years and was with the British forces that took Valenciennes and swept on to Mons just at the time the armistice was signed.
 In spite of his mOdesty and the ef- forts of his sense of humor to cover up the tragedy and the glory of his wonderful career, one can read be- tween the lines in this Canadian ser geants letter and glimpse something of the fine part he played in the great est of all wars.
 Vospei was wounded three times and gassed three times during his three years on the British front. He was in the van of those British troops that took Valenciennes in a storm of machine gun fire. He writes of that glorious event in the true Britisher style. It seemed an impossible feat to cross the canal and take the city in the face of the German forces and the German machine gun nests, but as VOspei simply says: We had orders and of course we carried them out in spite of the Germans and their ma chine guns"
 How truly Spartan and British is the above paragraph that tells of that deathless triumph of British arms.
 But Vospei does not hesitate to go into details where lighter things are concerned than facing shot and shell. After the city had been taken and the SeafOrths were hopping up, Frank found a French family in the cellar of house. The father came forth first and, Frenchman that he was, he greet ed his deliverers with kisses on both cheeks. Then came his daughters, two pretty French damsels. Their kisses were recompense for all we had been through, wrote the gallant Canadian sergeant
 After Valenciennes had been taken the Seaforths advanced and dug in under heavy fire. After long hours of this they expected relief but instead came orders to advance further still. They did. This was the Seaforths' way. The traditions of one of the old est and most glorious regiments in the British army had to be upheld.
 Vospei mentions lightly in passing a score of the most famous and hard fought battles of the western front in which he took part. Gassed at Ypres and Arras. wounded twice in Flanders. gassed yet again in a later engage ment and wounded a third time. he al ways came back and was in at the fin ish Surely this boy bears a charmed life. for in that last long. hard, ter rible drive that carried the allies through Valenciennes and on to Mons, the Canadians were in the thick of it and lucky indeed was the man who was on his feet at the end.
 Miss Vospei has another brother on a British mine sweeper and he took part in the first attack on Zee brugge when the port was blocked. Two real heroes in one family. Two stars here that will shine from genera tion to generation in the Vospei family.