“I nearly cried with pride at belonging to the same Race.
“There has been nothing like it in the whole War.
“I would rather take part in a thing like that than be Prime Minister of England. You would have been so proud if you could have seen them.”
The letter is to the boy’s mother. On it is written, by him who sends it me, “The Nelson touch, I think!”
[By kind permission of “The Westminster Gazette.”
National Service or the Navy?
Sir John Fisher and Lord Roberts, 1906.
CHAPTER V
THE DARDANELLES
“UNTIL THIS DAY REMAINETH THE SAME VAIL UNTAKEN AWAY”