There is a certain small fishing village whose men were nearly
all employed in fishing for mines. But there dawned a black day
when news came that forty of their number had perished together
and in the same hour. Now surely one would think that this little
village, plunged in grief for the loss of its young manhood, had
done its duty to the uttermost for Britain and their fellows!
But these heroic fisher-folk thought otherwise, for immediately
fifty of the remaining seventy-five men (all over military age)
volunteered and sailed away to fill the places of their dead sons
and brothers.
No. III.
Glancing idly through a local magazine some days since, my eye was
arrested by this:
"In proud and loving memory of our loved and loving son ... who
fell in France ... with his only brother, 'On Higher Service.'
There is no death."
Thus then I conclude my list of facts and figures, a record of
achievement such as this world has never known before, a record to
be proud of, because it is the outward and visible sign of a people,
strong, virile, abounding in energy, but above all, a people clean of
soul to whom Right and Justice are worth fighting for, suffering for,
labouring for. It is the sign of a people which is willing to endure
much for its ideals that the world may be a better world, wherein
those who shall come hereafter may reap, in peace and contentment, the
harvest this generation has sowed in sorrow, anguish, and great travail.
PIKE'S FINE ART PRESS, 47-8, Gloster Road, Brighton.
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