A correspondent who vouches for the accuracy of the story informs The Times of a touching incident which occurred during a recent raid by enemy airplanes.
One of their bombs fell on the playing field of a girls’ school and mortally injured Doris Spencer Walton, aged fifteen, the daughter of a missionary. She was picked up with a terrible wound in her side and taken to hospital in a cab by a special constable and two Canadian soldiers. In spite of the intense pain which she must have suffered, the girl talked quietly with the soldiers on the way.
Noticing that each of them had on his sleeve the gold stripe which is worn by those who have been wounded, she said: “I must kiss you both because you have suffered.” The kisses were given. At midnight the girl died.
The two soldiers, adds The Times’ correspondent, will value that act of a brave, dying child as much as they would the Victoria Cross.