Two Brothers Die Together

1916

One Soldier Killed Giving Dying Kin a Drink.

LONDON, England. — The death of two brothers in each other's arms at the front is related in private dispatches. They were Corporal Tom and Private Henry Hardwidge of Ferndale, Rhondda Valley, both members of a Welsh regiment.

An officer writes: "The eldest, Tom, was hit by a sniper's bullet and lay in the open under a scorching sun, when Henry, at the risk of his life, hastened to him with a pail of water. Just as he reached him and as he was offering the water, a sniper shot him. He clasped his brother as the latter rose to take the water, and they died in each other's arms." A third brother remains in action in France.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1916, p. 2.