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vurgumatu aurvive . CAPTAIN J. G PORTE WOUNDED AT THE FRONT . Captain J. G. Porter ( 9th Lancers ) son of Mr. John Porter Porter , D.L. , Bel . lisle , Lisbellaw , County Fermanagh , was one of the first officers back from the war wounded through the leg by a shell . He was out reconnoitering for his brigade , and was sitting on a hay stack - watching the movements of the enemy ( who were ap proaching and shelling the position , pre paratory to an advance ) -when he was hit by a shrapnel bullet , which penetrated his leg . This happened on Monday morning , August 24th . He and some wounded soldiers were sent across country in ambulance waggons , and they reached the train . The villages through which they passed were , in many cases on fire at the time ; or immed iately after they had passed through . They reached England on Thursday , 27th August .. CAPTAIN J. G. PORTER . Captain J. G. Porter , 9th Lancers , son of Mr. J. Porter Porter , D.L. , Bellisle , Lisbel law , Co Fermanagh , has arrived in London , and is at King Edward VII . Hospital suffer ing from a bullet wound . The bullet went straight through the thigh . This is the second time that Captain Porter has come back . wounded from the front . A X. TABLES TURNED . Mr. Ronald Vernon ( son of a late Mayor of Wycombe ) , who is at the front as a motor cyclist , writing on Oct. 23 , records an amusing incident when the tables were neatly turned on the Germans : The night before last . ( he says ) the Inniskilling Fusiliers were billeted for the night near a village and were all comfortably asleep , when a large force of Germans came up unawares and surrounded the lot , and they had to surrender . However , fortunately for the regiment , the 9th Lancers were not far away , and saw the whole incident occur , so they waited quietly until the Germans had settled down with their prisoners and then charged the lot - who must have been taken quite by surprise . The tables were completely turned , and instead of our regiment being made prisoners , we bagged a lot of Germans . Upon ontering the farm squeaks were heard coming up from the cellar , and upon investigation the colonel of the regiment was discovered , having been locked in there by the Germans . Photographs taken at OBRECHIES . Nothon Frauen came in Contact . Gammans near Mons . two days befor the British army Сталиния with the Their last days nest Beefore sighting commenced . |
